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DONETSK -- If the fighter jets roaring overhead weren t enough of an indication that the situation in Donetsk had changed dramatically, the thundering air strikes that followed erased any doubt.It was the Ukrainian military s biggest and most rapid response since the unrest began here in the east thre yeezy foam e months ago.Their target: pro-Russian separatists who had launched an audacious attempt to seize the city s international airport.The separatists made their first move on the airport in the dead of night. Pictures emerged of heavily-armed militants in the airport terminals and holding positions on the roof salomon hombre . A military truck with armed pro-Russian militants drives through a police check-point toward the airport of the eastern city of Donetsk, May 26, 2014. REUTERS Ukraine troops fight insurgents at major airport 01:55 By mid-morning, rebel reinforcements were arriving by the truckload, spreading out among the buildings and trees which line the airport perimeter. As a group of separatist fighters took cover in a cluster of trees at the end of an on-ramp to the airport, three helicopter gunships seemingly came out of nowhere and opened fire, t asics earing into the woods and the grassy area in fron Zysu Coronavirus updates: U.S. tops 100,000 COVID-19 cases
Indonesia start stanley polska ed the final phase of a troop reduction in tsunami-ravaged Aceh province Thursday, a key step in a p gourde stanley eace agreement with separatist rebels that was propelled forward by the disaster one year ago.Some 3,800 soldiers carrying automatic rifles and heavy bags boarded five Navy ships and a Hercules air carrier in the port town of Lhokseumawe, just days after Free Aceh Movement rebels handed over their weapons and disbanded their military wing.Hundreds of people attended a ceremony marking the completion of disarmament and decommissioning, the most delicate phase of a peace deal signed in August to end the bitter conflict that killed nearly 15,000 people. That s it, said military spokesman Lt. Col. Eri Soetiko, as the last of 24,000 security forces slated to leave the province under the accord started pulling out of port. All of the non-organic troops are gone. We ve closed our offices. Efforts to end the 29-year civil war moved forward after the massive earthquake struck off the coast of Aceh on Dec. 26, 2004, causing a tsunami that left at least 156,000 of the province s people dead or missing and a half million homeless. The rebels and the military each said they did not want to add to the people s suffering and hammered out an agreement during negotiations in Finland in which both sides made stanley tumblers major concessions.Free Aceh Movement representative Irwandi Yusuf and Pieter Feith, head of the 240-strong European Union peace monitoring mission, were among those w
DONETSK -- If the fighter jets roaring overhead weren t enough of an indication that the situation in Donetsk had changed dramatically, the thundering air strikes that followed erased any doubt.It was the Ukrainian military s biggest and most rapid response since the unrest began here in the east thre yeezy foam e months ago.Their target: pro-Russian separatists who had launched an audacious attempt to seize the city s international airport.The separatists made their first move on the airport in the dead of night. Pictures emerged of heavily-armed militants in the airport terminals and holding positions on the roof salomon hombre . A military truck with armed pro-Russian militants drives through a police check-point toward the airport of the eastern city of Donetsk, May 26, 2014. REUTERS Ukraine troops fight insurgents at major airport 01:55 By mid-morning, rebel reinforcements were arriving by the truckload, spreading out among the buildings and trees which line the airport perimeter. As a group of separatist fighters took cover in a cluster of trees at the end of an on-ramp to the airport, three helicopter gunships seemingly came out of nowhere and opened fire, t asics earing into the woods and the grassy area in fron Zysu Coronavirus updates: U.S. tops 100,000 COVID-19 cases
Indonesia start stanley polska ed the final phase of a troop reduction in tsunami-ravaged Aceh province Thursday, a key step in a p gourde stanley eace agreement with separatist rebels that was propelled forward by the disaster one year ago.Some 3,800 soldiers carrying automatic rifles and heavy bags boarded five Navy ships and a Hercules air carrier in the port town of Lhokseumawe, just days after Free Aceh Movement rebels handed over their weapons and disbanded their military wing.Hundreds of people attended a ceremony marking the completion of disarmament and decommissioning, the most delicate phase of a peace deal signed in August to end the bitter conflict that killed nearly 15,000 people. That s it, said military spokesman Lt. Col. Eri Soetiko, as the last of 24,000 security forces slated to leave the province under the accord started pulling out of port. All of the non-organic troops are gone. We ve closed our offices. Efforts to end the 29-year civil war moved forward after the massive earthquake struck off the coast of Aceh on Dec. 26, 2004, causing a tsunami that left at least 156,000 of the province s people dead or missing and a half million homeless. The rebels and the military each said they did not want to add to the people s suffering and hammered out an agreement during negotiations in Finland in which both sides made stanley tumblers major concessions.Free Aceh Movement representative Irwandi Yusuf and Pieter Feith, head of the 240-strong European Union peace monitoring mission, were among those w
