Governor in Eastern Ukraine announces funds to construct trenches and other defences to show Russia that an incursion would be resisted
Ukraine despatched tanks into the rolling terrain of the Donbas basin on Monday, putting its biggest guns back on the scene of the biggest armoured clash in history.
But as Ukraine's dilapidated tank units moved to muddy berms in the fields south of Donetsk city as part of face-saving mobilisation, the guns of T-64 and T-72 models were this time pointed towards Russia. Moscow warns it is ready to respond to pleas for intervention and there is a growing local protest movement demanding a Crimean-style referendum. "In Crimea yesterday they called a referendum, Donetsk can have the same.
Ukrainian loyalists in Donetsk had demanded a tougher stance from the authorities after one activist was killed by their rivals last Thursday. said Arthur Shevtsov, the Donetsk leader of the Right-wing Ukrainian party, Svoboda.
(nationalheadlines.co.uk)
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