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View all search resultsUkraine repels rebel attack on airport
Despite the cease-fire agreement, renewed fighting flared up Saturday in eastern Ukraine between pro-Russian rebels and government forces, while Moscow sent a second convoy of trucks into Ukraine without Kievâs consent
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espite the cease-fire agreement, renewed fighting flared up Saturday in eastern Ukraine between pro-Russian rebels and government forces, while Moscow sent a second convoy of trucks into Ukraine without Kiev's consent.
Ukraine's military operation said in a statement that it had successfully repelled a rebel attack on the government-held Donetsk airport, which came under artillery fire from rebel positions late on Friday.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has been at pains to prove that the cease-fire deal has yielded improvements on the ground in east Ukraine.
On Saturday, the country's Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said shortly after a second convoy of Russian trucks rolled into Ukraine that it is 'still in a state of war' with neighboring Russia despite a cease-fire between Kiev's forces and Moscow-backed rebels in the east.
'He cannot cope with the idea that Ukraine would be a part of a big EU family. He wants to restore the Soviet Union,' Yatsenyuk said.
