The pro-Russian rebels take Donetsk airport

Early Monday morning, dozens of pro-Russian militia armed with assault rifles have broken into the Sergei Prokofiev Donetsk, the capital of the People’s Republic eponymous self-declared International Airport. The aerodrome has been evacuated and closed and all flights canceled to ensure safety, said spokesman same Dmitro Kosinov. “There are armed men inside the enclosure, plenty of reason to remove all airport activities ” Kosinov said.

The road leading to the airfield was blocked by police, although the three trucks that ferried the separatists were able to break through. A little over a mile in a straight line, the militia controlled the main entrances to Donetsk from the northwest by a fortified checkpoint on the highway that links the provincial capital Krasnoarmisk, main point of entry of Ukrainian troops from the west. On Friday, they slowed the progress of a group of Ukrainian special forces up to Karlovka, with at least two dead soldiers. Traces of battle were clearly visible from the checkpoint Monday that control in that locality.

The action of the pro-Russian, which according to rebel sources from the Battalion Vostok (East), is to call for the immediate withdrawal of all troops from the Ukrainian region. In Donetsk Area not present or Army National Guard, only some roadblocks in the hands of traffic police. Separatist control much of the road and northwest sections of Donetsk and Mariupol links.

The Internal Security Service (SBU), which coordinates military operation against pro-Russian said on the night that the offensive would continue the truce Monday after 24 hours on election day Sunday.

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