Ukraine leader orders flag raised in rebel stronghold after army - TopicsExpress



          

Ukraine leader orders flag raised in rebel stronghold after army successes: KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko ordered the army to raise the national flag over the separatist stronghold of Slaviansk in eastern Ukraine on Saturday, after hearing reports government forces were in the city, the presidential web site said. Slaviansk, seized by rebels in April, had become the separatists strongest redoubt in eastern Ukraine and a base for Igor Strelkov, a Muscovite declared defence minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk Peoples Republic. …
Posted on: Sat, 05 Jul 2014 09:32:56 +0000

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