Ukrainian soldier: "They don't fight. They simply destroy"
Reuters
2014-11-17
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Ukrainian troops in eastern Ukraine duck for cover in this footage shot by a Ukrainian Television channel.
It's the latest flare-up of violence in the region, that now threatens a two month-old truce.
(SOUNDBITE) (Russian) UNIDENTIFIED UKRAINIAN SOLDIER, SAYING:
"The shelling's taken place all week long. At first mortars, grads, mortars, grads namely at civilians... What does it mean? Lawlessness from their side. What else could it mean? They don't fight. They don't fight. They simply destroy, they want to intimidate civilians, simply to scare civilians."
One resident says the strategy is working. She says, civilians are dying.
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(SOUNDBITE) (Ukrainian) UNIDENTIFIED LOCAL RESIDENT, SAYING:
"They fired from here and it struck them directly. We don't know exactly from where, but it was definitely shelling. My windows were blown in and there ... a woman was buried yesterday, they killed her, she was killed. Who knows where it was fired from."
It's the latest flare-up of violence in the region, that now threatens a two month-old truce.
(SOUNDBITE) (Russian) UNIDENTIFIED UKRAINIAN SOLDIER, SAYING:
"The shelling's taken place all week long. At first mortars, grads, mortars, grads namely at civilians... What does it mean? Lawlessness from their side. What else could it mean? They don't fight. They don't fight. They simply destroy, they want to intimidate civilians, simply to scare civilians."
One resident says the strategy is working. She says, civilians are dying.
.
(SOUNDBITE) (Ukrainian) UNIDENTIFIED LOCAL RESIDENT, SAYING:
"They fired from here and it struck them directly. We don't know exactly from where, but it was definitely shelling. My windows were blown in and there ... a woman was buried yesterday, they killed her, she was killed. Who knows where it was fired from."
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