Pitched battles rage in Donetsk

Pitched battles rage in Donetsk
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Pitched battles rage in Donetsk, A massive Russian \"humanitarian\" convoy closed in on Ukraine\'s border on Tursdya despite doubts over whether the trucks would be allowed across, and as deadly fighting rocked rebel-held strongholds.

Donetsk: A massive Russian "humanitarian" convoy closed in on Ukraine's border on Tursdya despite doubts over whether the trucks would be allowed across, and as deadly fighting rocked rebel-held strongholds. The nearly 300 vehicles headed towards south-eastern Ukraine, even as intense shelling there in the insurgent bastions of Donetsk and Lugansk -- where the trucks appear headed -- sharply increased the death toll from fighting.
A convoy of white trucks with humanitarian aid moves from Voronezh towards Rostov-on-Don, Russia, early Thursday
Health authorities in Donetsk, the centre of which was under heavy shelling by the army, said 74 people were killed in fighting over the past three days. Government forces at the same time reported nine dead and 18 injured among its troops, following four months of fighting that have left over 2,000 dead and many residents without power, running water and with dwindling food supplies.Meanwhile, Ukraine dispatched aid convoys of its own from three cities to a government-held eastern town as it tried to race Moscow to hand out much-needed aid to residents in the blighted region.

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