Ukraine Violence Flares Across Country as Kiev’s Control Slips

Source: BusinessWeek/Bloomberg

By Volodymyr Verbyany, Balazs Penz and Stephen Bierman May 04, 2014

Ukraine sought to dislodge rebels from its eastern industrial heartland as violence that’s also spread to the Black Sea gateway of Odessa threatens to loosen Kiev’s control of the regions.

Troops in the Donetsk area, near the Russian border, took back a television tower overnight that had been seized by pro-Russian forces, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said on his Facebook account. Fighting in Kramatorsk, in northern Donetsk, left seven people dead, the website Kramatorsk.info said. Clashes continued in Odessa yesterday.

There is a “real war and this is the truth,” Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said in an interview with the BBC. The conflict is “due to Russian aggression and due to Russian-led protesters.”
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The fighting in Odessa, where Interfax said two people were injured yesterday, is taking place about 160 kilometers (100 miles) from the European Union’s southeastern frontier in Romania. It’s also Ukraine’s most important conduit to the Black Sea after Russia took control of Crimea last month.

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