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Ukraine rebel renew push to take Donetsk airport | |
(35 minutes later) | |
Rebel forces in eastern Ukraine are conducting an offensive to capture the government-held airport in Donetsk, officials say. | |
Pro-Russian rebels have tried several times in recent weeks to take the airport, which lies to the north-west of the city. | Pro-Russian rebels have tried several times in recent weeks to take the airport, which lies to the north-west of the city. |
The insurgents continued an offensive - begun on Wednesday - on "a broad front", the Ukrainian military says. | |
An official truce in place in eastern Ukraine has often been violated. | |
The ceasefire was called on 5 September, but on Wednesday four people were killed by a shell which landed on a school in Donetsk, and six died when a minibus was hit. | |
A spokesman for what the Ukrainian government calls its anti-terrorist operation said Ukrainian forces repelled four attacks on the airport on Wednesday evening. | |
A T-64 tank was destroyed and seven rebels were killed, Vladyslav Seleznyov told Kanal 5 TV. | |
The rebels used tanks, multiple-launch rocket systems, artillery and mortars, he said, resuming their attacks on Thursday morning with small-arms fire. |