The shiny new terminal building at Donetsk airport opened just in time to welcome fans to the European soccer championships in 2012. In recent months, bullets and shells are all that have flown in and out, the Bloomberg writes.
Loss of the airport on the northwest edge of Donetsk “would have a strong demoralizing effect,” Co-director of Foreign Relations and International Security Programmes at the Razumkov Centre Oleksiy Melnyk said on Jan. 20.
One reason it has been such a hotspot is that the Minsk peace accord in September, which provided for a cease-fire that has been largely ignored, did not specify …read more
Source: Razumkov Centre
