Artillery fire echoes in east Ukraine's Donetsk


  • World
  • Thursday, 24 Jul 2014

DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) - Artillery fire echoed in the south and northwest of rebel-held Donetsk in eastern Ukraine on Thursday and one district near the city was without electricity as Ukrainian forces pressed a military campaign against pro-Russian separatists.

The rebels ordered the removal of all vehicles in a square near the train station, and local authorities said damage to dozens of electricity substations had left at least one district, called Petrovsky, without electricity.

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