Ukraine Accuses Russia of Cynicism Over Convoy; Death Toll Rises Sharply
Ukraine denounced Russia’s dispatch of a humanitarian aid convoy now advancing towards the border as an act of unbounded cynicism serving pro-Russian separatists, and the UN said the death toll in fighting had doubled in the last two weeks to over 2,000.
Kiev said the trucks would not be allowed to pass.
“First they send tanks, Grad missiles and bandits who fire on Ukrainians and then they send water and salt,” Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk said at a government meeting on Wednesday.
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