BIG fight going on, right now, at Donetsk Airport. The terminal can be seen to be on fire in several vids. lots of gunfire and explosions.
Rebels moved in last night to take control of it, and today Kiev has launched what looks like the biggest attack yet. Around 3 attack helos, and 7-8 transport helos, supported by two jets, landed at the airport a couple of hours ago.
Twitter is blowing up with pics and video of the op.
RT:http://rt.com/news/161516-ukraine-airport-clashes-defense/
VK:http://vk.com/video79889569_168765330
LifeNews:http://lifenews.ru/news/133875
The Interpreter Live Blog http://www.interpretermag.com/ukraine-liveblog-day-98-poroshenko-wins-majority-of-votes/
Tweets from Roland Oliphant, UK Telegraph:
644Am: There’s a fighter circling over Donetsk. Taxi radio says something’s burning at the airport
700Am: It is burning. Lots of smoke rising.
703Am:Apparently it’s the hangers (taxi cb radio, I can’t get much closer).
7:30 AM: Intense gunfire in bursts every few minutes
736AM: And the occasional thud that sounds like a mortar or smth. Guessing Ukrainian garrison is surrounded. Rebel gunmen on neighbouring streets
7:55 AM Really difficult to tell who is on the offensive here. Oh there goes a few big bangs.
809am: Someone flanked someone. Fight appears to have spread into streets south of airport north of train station. Gunfire heard from both sides.
0835am: Young rebel tells me it is definitely the Ukrainians on the offensive. But it is massively confused here.
0939am: One civilian killed at the station by stray fire from direction of airport. Must have been fired maybe a mile or more away.
0947am: Can still here gunfire from here ar the station, but distant. Choppers flying low
I guess this answers your question of whether the new government will just roll over and let Russian nazi terrorists take over half their country. Nope, they are going to exterminate the Russian terrorists.