It seems like escalation is likely. It's not yet on Western sources (everyone is still busy with FIFA), but Ukrainian and separatist sources report new, heavy fights. Tensions had been growing over the past days, but this is possibly the worst we've seen since Debaltseve. Live ticker (in Russian, unfortunately):http://korrespondent.net/ukraine/352...marynky-onlain Under attack is a place called марьинка донецк область (just copy into google maps) It seems like the columns reported by Reuters last week were indeed heading to Ukraine.
Which is interesting in light of the fact, that the project Novorossiya, which claimed also other territories besides Luhansk and Donetsk, was only recently abandoned by the Kremlin. It also confirmed Donetsk and Luhansk's status as part of Ukraine.
Edit: Minsk is now fully dead. The Ukrainian General Staff just announced the return of heavy artillery to the frontline. According to them, the attack began at 4 a.m. this morning, using a two-digit number of tanks and more than a thousand soldiers, supported by heavy artillery.
This is bad. Really bad.
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