UKRAINE: Thirteen Ukrainians dead in pre-election clash with pro-Russia rebels

Record ID: 354947

  • Title: UKRAINE: Thirteen Ukrainians dead in pre-election clash with pro-Russia rebels
  • Date: 22nd May 2014
  • Summary: NEAR VOLNOVAHA, EASTERN UKRAINE (MAY 22, 2014) (VIDEO OBTAINED BY REUTERS) VARIOUS OF DESTROYED UKRAINIAN MILITARY VEHICLES/AMBULANCE
  • Embargoed: 6th June 2014 13:00
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  • Location: Ukraine
  • Country: Ukraine
  • Topics: Crime,War / Fighting,Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA34RS02Z4FHD3DCFWZD8RDUQPX
  • Story Text: At least 13 Ukrainian soldiers are killed in an attack by separatists in the east, three days before presidential elections.


    Ukraine said more than a dozen servicemen were killed on Thursday (May 22) in an early morning clash with pro-Russian separatists, fuelling security concerns ahead of a presidential election on Sunday.
    Kiev's pro-Western government said its forces had also rebuffed an attempt by the separatists to enter its territory from Russia, and it called for an emergency session of the U.N. Security Council to discuss Moscow's role in the violence.
    Ukraine's acting President Oleksander Turchinov said 13 servicemen had been killed. Authorities in the Donetsk region, where the attack took place, put the death toll at 16, without specifying whether they were all soldiers or also included separatists, and said 32 people were injured.
    Top Ukrainian security official Andriy Parubiy said he expected more separatist violence in the coming days "because their whole concept is aimed at disrupting the presidential election".
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