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Denton Record-Chronicle
INTERNATIONAL
Sunday, August 10, 2014
11A
Rebel leader seeks assistance, cease-fire
By Yuras Karmanau
Associated Press
DONETSK, Ukraine -
Ukraine’s rebels are surrounded
and ready to agree to a cease-fire
to prevent a “humanitarian ca-
tastrophe,” the insurgents’ new
leader said Saturday as condi-
tions deteriorated in the rebel
stronghold of Donetsk, artillery
thundering through deserted
streets.
There was no immediate
government response to the
cease-fire statement. Ukrainian
troops have made steady ad-
vances against the rebels in re-
cent weeks.
“We are prepared to stop fir-
ing to bar the spread of the scale
of the humanitarian catastrophe
in Donbass [eastern Ukraine],”
Aleksandr Zakharchenko, the
so-called prime minister of the
Donetsk separatists, said in a
statement on a rebel website.
His motive for offering a
cease-fire was not clear, but his
comments could be aimed at in-
creasing the pressure on
Ukraine to allow in a Russian
aid mission.
Russia, which the Ukrainian
government in Kiev and West-
ern countries allege is support-
ing the rebels, has called repeat-
edly for a humanitarian mission
into eastern Ukraine. But Kiev
and the West suggest that could
be just a pretext to send Russian
forces into the region — and say
about 20,000 of them have
gathered just across the border.
Ukrainian President Petro
Poroshenko issued a statement
late Saturday saying that
Ukraine is prepared to accept
humanitarian assistance in east-
ern Ukraine. But he said the aid
must come in without military
accompaniment, it must pass
through border checkpoints un-
der Ukrainian control and the
mission must be international in
character.
Poroshenko said he and Ger-
man Chancellor Angela Merkel
discussed German participation
in such a mission.
In Washington, the White
House said President Barack
Obama and Merkel agreed that
Evgeniy Maloletka/AP
Ukrainian government soldiers drive their tank with a Ukraini-
an national flag in Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, on Satur-
day.
any Russian intervention in
Ukraine was unacceptable and
would violate international law.
Artillery reverberated Satur-
day across Donetsk, home to
nearly 1 million people before
300,000 fled the conflict.
“The situation is getting
worse with every hour,” Donetsk
city council spokesman Maxim
Rovinsky told The Associated
Press.
At least one person was killed
and 18 wounded in shelling that
hit about 30 apartment blocks
Saturday in Donetsk, he said,
adding that about 2,000 resi-
dential buildings had no elec-
tricity.
City streets were nearly emp-
ty of cars and pedestrians and
most stores were closed. Explo-
sions were also heard near Do-
netsk’s airport.
Ukrainian officials have con-
sistently denied that their forces
are shelling Chilians, but the
rebels dismiss that and claim the
government is aiming to blame
the insurgents for the increasing
death and destruction. Ukraine
says the rebels have deliberately
put rocket launchers in populat-
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Some say both sides are to
blame.
‘We’re afraid of the Ukraini-
an army, which is firing on the
city, and of the rebels of the Do-
netsk People’s Republic, who are
robbing and killing civilians,”
said Dmitry Andronov, a 47-
year-old resident.
Zakharchenko’s statement
that the city was surrounded
came hours after the rebels’ top
commander said Ukrainian
forces had seized a key town,
Krasnyi Luch, effectively cutting
Donetsk and nearby territory off
from the rest of the rebel-held
east.
“The Donetsk-Horlivka group
of the fighters of Novorossiya is
completely surrounded,” Igor Gir-
kin said on a rebel sodal media
page.
Novorossiya, or “New Rus-
sia,” is a term widely used by the
rebels for the eastern area that
seeks independence from the
government in Kiev. Horlivka,
where rebels and Ukrainian
forces are also fighting, is 20
miles north of Donetsk.
A spokesman for the Ukrai-
nian military operation, Andriy
Lysenko, told reporters Satur-
day that he could not confirm
that Krasnyi Luch was under
government control.
Concerns also were rising
about a possible humanitarian
catastrophe in the rebels’ sec-
ond-largest city of Luhansk,
where fighting has been heavier
and more prolonged. A map re-
leased by the Ukrainian military
showed Ukrainian forces near
the outskirts of Luhansk on
three sides, with an opening to
other rebel-held territory only to
the south.
Russian news agencies quot-
ed Luhansk authorities as saying
Saturday that the city has been
without water and electricity for
a week and most of its stores
were closed.
Obama and British Prime
Minister David Cameron also
spoke by telephone Saturday
about Ukraine.
“Both expressed grave con-
cern about reports that Russian
military vehicles have crossed
the border into Ukraine and that
Russian armed forces are exer-
cising for a ‘humanitarian inter-
vention,”’ said a statement from
Cameron’s office.
Both “are absolutely clear
that such a so-called humanitar-
ian mission would be unjustified
and illegal.”
The deputy head of the
Ukrainian presidential adminis-
tration, Valeriy Chalyi, said Sat-
urday that Russian forces want-
ed to enter Ukraine under the
guise of a humanitarian mission
but Ukraine had blocked the
move.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry
Peskov denied the report, saying
“there was no attempt by Rus-
sian soldiers at penetration,” ac-
cording to Russian news agen-
cies.
But he reiterated Russia’s call
for humanitarian action, saying
“this catastrophe now is the No. 1
theme for discussion.”
The International Commit-
tee of the Red Cross said it was
working to alleviate the crisis in
eastern Ukraine but warned
that any Red Cross aid convoy
“will be taken in strict adherence
to our fundamental working
principles of neutrality, impar-
tiality and independence.”
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