Ukraine’s President-elect Petro Poroshenko has vowed to punish the “bandits” responsible for shooting down an army helicopter on Thursday.<br /><br />It was hit by a surface to air missile near the town of Sloviansk in the east of the country.<br /><br />12 soldiers including a general died in the attack, which has been attributed to pro- Russian separatists.<br /><br />Sloviansk has seen fierce fighting between the rebels and Ukraine’s army.<br /><br />In Donetsk , where fighting on Monday to control the airport resulted in forty deaths among the rebels, families buried their loved ones.<br /><br />Chechen fighters are believed to have joined the pro-Russian fighters in the east although the Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov denies having sent any troops.<br /><br />There is still no news of four OSCE observers who disappeared earlier in the week.
