Rebel fighters in Donetsk. Yahoo/Reuters.
Heavy fighting continues in Eastern Ukraine as loyalist forces attempt to encircle the rebel strongholds of Donetsk and Luhansk. -Yahoo/Reuters. Both cities have come under artillery fire, killing rebels and civilians alike. The fighting is also occurring near the site of the Flight 17 crash, hindering recovery efforts and investigation. Meanwhile, the EU is considering more sanctions against Russia for continuing to support the rebels.
My Comment:
Expect more of the same in the coming weeks. Ukraine absolutely has to cut off these cities now in order to have any chance at winning this war. Should they surround and encircle Donetsk and Luhansk, they can settle into siege warfare and starve the rebels out. It will be a humanitarian disaster with thousands of civilian casualties but at this point I doubt Ukraine cares. It's either victory here or complete economic collapse. Of course that assumes that Putin and Russia allows siege warfare in an ethnically Russian area...
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