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New Fighting Reported in Eastern Ukraine
LUHANSK, Ukraine — Ukraine’s minister of internal affairs said Tuesday that the central government’s security forces had begun a new phase of the campaign against separatist fighters in the city of Slavyansk, destroying rebel checkpoints and equipment and engaging in firefights.
The minister, Arsen Avakov, said in a Facebook posting that there had been “very intensive shooting,” in the area of Semyonovka, near Slovyansk. He said rebels had fired at military vehicles using rocket launchers, but that the vehicles and personnel inside had survived and had managed to eliminate the checkpoints.
A Ukrainian government official, Vladislav Seleznev, claimed that Ukrainian forces had killed as many as 300 secessionists on the outskirts of Slavyansk.However, the head of the pro-Russia group holding Slovyansk said only two of his men were killed in the fighting, and 12 wounded.
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