Fighting Resumes: Ukraine Jets, Helicopters Strike Seized Donetsk Airport – Live Webcast
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
05/26/2014
Ukraine didn’t waste much time after its presidential election, which appears to have been won outright by the chocolate tycoon Poroshenko much to the humiliation of once frontrunner Tymoshenko, to resume its military operation in the east. Early this morning, the newswires blasted that Ukraine warplanes have carried out an airstrike against pro-Russian separatists at the Donetsk International Airport. This happened after forces belonging to the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, which proclaimed its independence from Kiev last weekend, came to the airport demanding that Ukrainian troops leave it. The self-defense troops said some 200 Kiev soldiers were guarding the inner perimeter of the hub. All flights have been suspended.
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