"Ukraine: Nothing quiet on the Eastern front" Topic
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Tango01 | 21 Feb 2017 9:51 p.m. PST |
"Fighting persists despite the two-year anniversary of the Minsk 2 cease-fire agreement. The gut-churning bass of artillery rockets dispels the myth that a cease-fire is holding in eastern Ukraine, two years after the Minsk 2 agreement between Russian-backed separatists and pro-government forces was signed. At least 30 civilians died when the fighting escalated again in January, following what the government in Kiev described as an unsuccessful offensive by pro-Moscow rebels on the city of Avdiivka. In a sluggish 20th-century war of attrition, where undersupplied trenches are hit by sporadic artillery fire, graffiti on a Ukrainian soldier's helmet paraphrases the title of Erich Maria Remarque's classic on the First World War: "Nothing new on the western eastern front." Civilians trapped in the fighting initially fled to safer ground in 2014. However, when their money ran out many of those families saw no option other than to return to their homes on the front line…" YouTube link Main page link Amicalement Armand
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