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Separatists, Ukraine Military Clash in Slavyansk, 5 Deaths Reported

Thursday, April 24, 2014 4:43

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Thursday was a day of action in Slavyansk as Ukraine military forces executed promises to conduct further “anti-terror” campaigns in the divided eastern city. Beyond that, it was another day of conflict with people guessing who was fighting who. What is clear is Ukraine forces moved into Slavyansk looking to capture barricaded checkpoints. Fires were set, tires burnt, shots were fired but the smoke cleared fast and what resistance Ukraine forces were fighting disappeared. RT “at least five self-defense guards” were killed according to the Ukrainian Interior Ministry (wherever those guys came from).

The most curious event was an unconfirmed assault on a military facility nearby.

Reuters
The Ukrainian government said troops repelled an overnight raid on a base at Artemivsk, to the south of Slaviansk on the road to Donetsk. A soldier was wounded in the attack by about 70 people who Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said on Facebook were led by Russian soldiers.

Reuters
Ukrainian troops with five light armored vehicles took control of a checkpoint north of Slaviansk on Thursday after pro-Russian separatists appeared to abandon the position, Reuters journalists said from the scene.

When the armored unit approached along a road from Sviatogorsk, which Ukraine’s government said it recaptured on Wednesday, militants set up a smokescreen of burning tires. Within half an hour, the Ukrainian force was in control of the position near the village of Khrestyshche. No shots were heard.

Ukrainian forces appear to be closing in around Slaviansk, a city of 130,000 which has become a military stronghold for the pro-Russian movement and is entirely controlled by separatist fighters.

Reuters journalists saw Ukrainian troops digging in outside the city on the main road south to the regional capital Donetsk.

Earlier in the morning, a spokeswoman for the separatist authorities in Slaviansk, Stella Khorosheva, said on Facebook that two people were killed at a checkpoint overnight.

Local online news site slavgorod.com.ua quoted other separatist representatives saying one man was dead and another seriously wounded after a group of local militia fighters from a checkpoint went to engage a group of “armed men” between Slaviansk and Sviatogorsk and were then fired on from a wood.

The Ukrainian government said troops repelled an overnight raid on a base at Artemivsk, to the south of Slaviansk on the road to Donetsk. A soldier was wounded in the attack by about 70 people who Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said on Facebook were led by Russian soldiers.

Военные пытаются войти в город #Славянск pic.twitter.com/VDgUd7kELI

— Смирнофф (@smirnof3gs) April 24, 2014

Единая страна?!
#Славянск pic.twitter.com/hCDynNUcP6

— tishchenko_k (@tishchenko_k) April 24, 2014

#Славянск pic.twitter.com/TIt23e1ik1

— Новороссия (@NOVORUSSIA2014) April 24, 2014

В донецкий город Славянск входит украинская бронетехника, ВИДЕО #Славянск #Донецк #Украина http://t.co/Q5YahwIiR3 pic.twitter.com/R5fmLvsy0B

— Виталий Ипотечный (@ipotechniy) April 24, 2014

#Славянск
На комбикорм наступают войска #Украины pic.twitter.com/dg3B96NVcy

— tishchenko_k (@tishchenko_k) April 24, 2014

В Славянск стягивается тяжелая техника
#Славянск #новости pic.twitter.com/Wj40AUynGy

— LIFENEWS (@lifenews_ru) April 24, 2014

https://t.co/1ECoqZ1PBX Knock-knock. One of those 5 checkpoints #Sloviansk #Slovyansk #Slavyansk #Ukraine #ATO pic.twitter.com/NvDpTxiQCx

— Ukrainian Updates (@Ukroblogger) April 24, 2014

PHOTO: #Slavyansk checkpoint attacked by Ukraine army http://t.co/NGeWsTJDnU pic.twitter.com/0zj20WPI9N (via @GrahamWP_UK )

— RT (@RT_com) April 24, 2014

Scene from #Slavyansk at Kombikornovskaya after Ukrainian army head (back to Izyum likely). #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/9oC8AYn7gl

— From beyond the Wall (@beyondwallru) April 24, 2014

Something like a civil war as this user commented?

Что-то творится в славянске, кажется это уже гражданская война #славянск pic.twitter.com/5q9hsYdvFH

— Игорь Охотников (@iokhotnikov) April 24, 2014

Meanwhile on CNN

B/c @CNN is fully bullshit RT @SergueiMakarov: Mientras en #Slavyansk matan a gente, en #CNN… pic.twitter.com/KXoNN36ffo

— WTFRLY.com (@WTFRLY) April 24, 2014

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