Ukraine’s security forces pressed their assault on pro-Russian militants in this separatist stronghold in eastern Ukraine on Saturday, even as the rebels freed seven European military observers held for more than a week as suspected NATO spies and the Kremlin cited the deaths of dozens of people in street violence in Odessa as proof that Ukraine could no longer protect its citizens.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
New York Times: Ukraine presses assault in east as separatists free military observers
Masked pro-Russia activists wait to prevent planned campaigning visit of presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko to the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on April 22, 2014.
