[BUSINESSWEEK] Ukraine's military said it killed as many as 200 rebels near the eastern city of Donetsk, inflicting the biggest blow by either side in the conflict in more than two months and removing the pretense of a Sept. 5 truce.
Accusing Russia of sending dozens of tanks and other military vehicles across its border yesterday into separatist-held areas, military front man Andriy Lysenko said Ukraine's army was preparing "an adequate reaction." Lysenko said Ukrainian forces used artillery strikes to kill the rebels and destroy tanks and armored vehicles after they came under fire at Donetsk airport after almost daily attacks.
Rising tension between the former Soviet republics is threatening to escalate back into the open separatist war that broke out after the February ouster of Russian-backed president Viktor Yanukovych and Vladimir Putin
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...'s annexation of the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine a month later.