Militia resumes attempts to take Donetsk airport - report
MOSCOW. Sept 4 (Interfax) - The militia of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) has resumed attempts to assault the Donetsk airport, Kostyantyn Knyryk, the head of the Southeastern Front information center, told Interfax on Thursday.
"Militia fighters today resumed firing at the airport, which is still under the Ukrainian military forces' control," Knyryk said.
Despite attempts being made to arrange a truce in eastern Ukraine, the Ukrainian government forces resumed the shelling of Donetsk and its suburbs on Thursday morning, Knyryk said.
"Explosions were heard in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk starting at 5:45 a.m. Moscow time. Residents of the community of Trudovske descended to basements because of heavy explosions. Artillery fire covered Bryketna and Shchypachyov Streets. Fighting was under way in Maryinka all night, and Grad [multiple rocket launcher] firing was heard in the center of Horlivka at about 5:00 a.m., coming presumably from the Stroitel neighborhood. A power substation in the village of Kindrativka has been damaged, and there is no power supply there," he said.
