Ukraine 'Anti-Terror' Operation Leaves 2 Injured in Airfield Skirmish

Media outlets owned by the Russian government are reporting that a Ukrainian military assault on an airfield in the Eastern city of Kramatorsk on Tuesday has resulted in four deaths and two injuries, but details remain unclear.

Pro-Russian government militias, which the Ukrainian government and other Western nations insist are actually Russian special forces, had taken the airfield as well as a number of buildings in cities across Eastern Ukraine over the past week. Ukrainian interim President Oleksandr Turchynov accused these militias of terrorizing Ukrainian citizens and on Tuesday initiated an "anti-terrorism" effort to reclaim that territory through military force, after warning Russian forces to evacuate by Sunday, April 13. Read more...