MOSCOW/DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) - Ukraine launched a "large-scale operation" to retake the eastern town of Slaviansk, pro-Russian separatists there said on Friday, in an escalation of violence in what has become the worst confrontation between Russia and the West since the Cold War.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
Reuters: Pro-Russian rebels say Ukraine launches operation to retake Sloviansk
Ukrainian soldiers stand near a tank at a checkpoint near the south eastern Ukrainain city of Slavyansk on May 1, 2014. AFP PHOTO / VASILY MAXIMOV
