The men at the Budennovsky checkpoint say they are ready. For weeks, the group of rebel gunmen has worked like traffic cops, checking vehicles coming in and out of this eastern Ukrainian city. Yet soon, they expect, it will be time to fight: retreating behind cinder blocks and slinking into roadside trenches to mount the final defence of Donetsk, a million-strong metropolis facing imminent attack.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
Telegraph: Ukraine’s rebels prepare to defend Donetsk to the death
An Ukrainian serviceman guards a checkpoint near the small eastern Ukrainian city of Debaltsevo, Donetsk region on August 2, 2014.
