Ukraine’s Next Battle Is Donetsk, but No Bombs, Please
he decisive campaign in Ukraine’s separatist rebellion — the battle for Donetsk — is imminent, and the looming question is how much damage the jewel of the country’s economy will suffer.
Fearing that the faceoff between 30,000 Ukrainian military troops and about 10,000 pro-Russian separatists will destroy much of the city of 1 million people, tens of thousands of residents have fled Donetsk.
The Ukrainian military used different strategies to recapture two other key cities in the eastern provinces of the country.
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