Ukraine Government Claims Control of Airport After Deaths of 33 Separatists
UPDATED: 10:40 a.m. ET
Ukraine's government said Tuesday it had retaken control of the airport in Donetsk after a bloody battle with pro-Russian separatists that left at least 30 insurgent fighters dead.
Mashable correspondent Christopher J. Miller was in the Donetsk morgue earlier in the day and reported seeing "seriously mangled" bodies of insurgent fighters. He said the head of the morgue gave a death toll of 33 fighters and two civilians.
An elderly woman was one of two civilians who was killed after she caught in the crossfire of fighting between government troops and pro-Russian insurgents
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