#Ukraine
scrambled fighter jets and combat helicopters to strike rebel gunmen who seized
control of the main airport in the eastern city of #Donetsk on Monday,
triggering heavy gunbattles.
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| Pro-Russian militants take ther position in the international airport of the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on May 26, 2014. (AFP/ALEXANDER KHUDOTEPLY) |
"There
are no talks with terrorists," said Poroshenko. "Their goal is to
turn Donbass (east Ukraine) into Somalia. I will not let anyone do this to our
state and I hope that Russia will support my approach."
Rebels
on Sunday blocked voting across most of Donetsk and Lugansk, two regions that
together make up around 15 per cent of the national electorate.
Several
pro-Russian figures and rebel commanders said they did not recognise
Poroshenko's legitimacy and would continue their independence fight.
"We
consider that the winner of the election is president of west Ukraine -- he is
a half president," said Oleh Tsarov, a former member of the Regions Party
of toppled pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych.
"Let
the people who elected him recognise him but for us here he won't be our
president," said pro-Russian shopkeeper Tetyana Krasikova.
"In
the east his election won't change anything," she said. "The people
have been too humiliated, too many have died to go back to the way things
were." Channel News
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