“A great war arrived at our doorstep, the likes of which Europe has not seen since World War II,” Ukraine’s Defense Minister Valeriy Geletey wrote on Facebook, warning of “tens of thousands of deaths.” Ukrainian forces ceded a strategic eastern airport to pro-Russian insurgents on September 1, even as European-mediated talks over the fast-escalating crisis opened behind closed doors in the Belarussian capital Minsk. The rebels have launched a major counteroffensive in recent days that the Ukrainian government and its Western allies claim is backed by Russian forces – a charge Moscow denies. Geletey vowed to “immediately mount defenses against Russia, which is trying not only to secure positions held by terrorists before but to advance on other territories of Ukraine.”
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