Kiev loses control of Novoazovsk, rebel troops advance in southeast Ukraine
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Kiev’s troops had to leave the eastern Ukrainian city of Novoazovsk to save their lives, said the country’s Security and Defense Council. The authorities admitted that self-defense forces are advancing and leading a counteroffensive in the southeast.Along with Novoazovsk, Kiev troops have lost control over the villages of Amvrosiivka and Starobeshevo in the Donetsk Region of Eastern Ukraine.According to Ukraine’s Security and Defense Council, on Wednesday Kiev’s troops were shelled by Grad rocket launchers and then attacked by two military columns of self-defense troops.The columns included tanks and armored infantry vehicles.“Later in the afternoon two Russian columns entered Novoazovsk,” the council said in a statement.Now Kiev’s forces are reinforcing their defenses in the city of Mariupol, in southeastern Ukraine.The council added that self-defense troops had a BM-27 Uragan multiple rocket launcher system near the village of Holodnoe, 17 kilometers from Novoazovsk. However, there is no confirmation of this report.Only Russian volunteers fighting with anti-Kiev forces - Donetsk Republic leader“The situation in the area of the anti-terrorist operation worsened in the last 24 hours,” said Ukraine’s National Security Council spokesman Andrey Lysenko.[...]Read the full article at: rt.com
