New footage from the Ukrainian military shows a heavily damaged kindergarten in the Luhansk region of the country with an apparent blast crater in its adjoining yard and rubble in its classrooms. The military has blamed the damage on pro-Russian forces.
of an initial force drawdown along Ukraine's northern, eastern and southern borders, saying that President Vladimir Putin's military appears, in reality, to be bolstering troop numbers, not reducing them.try to stage a"false-flag" incident
The Russian-backed separatists who control two breakaway districts within the Donbas region, Luhansk and Donetsk, claimed on Thursday that Ukrainian forces had opened fire on a number of villages inside their territory, but that they were still checking for casualties. Officials from the self-proclaimed Luhansk and Donetsk"People's Republics" said Ukrainian security forces"continue to flagrantly violate the ceasefire regime using heavy weapons.
It has long been the policy of the Ukraine's armed forces in Donbas not to respond to provocations from the rebels unless their lives are in immediate danger.Russia's recent buildup of around 150,000 troops just over the border from the Donbas region in the east, in Belarus to the north and Crimea to the south, which began in the autumn, has sent tensions soaring.
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