A cura di @MostroDeiBiscotti.

Da qualche giorno si registrano scontri particolarmente violenti in Ucraina con numerosi caduti da ambo le parti e perdite fra i civili.

Associated Press riassume in un primo breve articolo gli eventi del fine settimana.

Kiev accused the rebels of using tanks and Grad multiple grenade launchers and said they recorded intensified fighting all along the front line — outside the separatist stronghold of Donetsk, in the south of the front-line north of Mariupol and west of Luhansk. The Grad launcher is among heavy-caliber weapons that should have been pulled back from the front line under a 2015 truce between the warring parties.

Un secondo pezzo descrive l’escalation e il coinvolgimento dei civili.

Fighting between government troops and Russia-backed separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine escalated on Tuesday, killing at least eight people overnight, injuring dozens and briefly trapping more than 200 coalminers underground, the warring sides reported. […] The artillery shelling, which appears to be the worst in many months, was concentrated around the government-controlled town of Avdiivka, home to a giant coking plant.

Infine un intervento su War is Boring offre maggiori dettagli sulla dinamica degli scontri e analizza l’impiego dell’artiglieria pesante da parte russa.

One of the most characteristically Russian methods of warfighting is the heavy use of artillery. In Syria, Russian artillery gave a boost to a Syrian army badly depleted by years of heavy fighting. In eastern Ukraine, combined Russian-separatist forces continue to exchange artillery fire with the Ukrainian army on a regular basis. […] Over the weekend of Jan. 28, 2017, Russian-separatist artillery pounded Ukrainian troops in the worst fighting in months — “using all the might of their arsenal along all front lines,” the Ukrainian military stated according to the Financial Times.

La notizia viene brevemente ripresa anche da Repubblica.