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Ukraine's persistent shooting in the east draws multi-ethnic recruits

2015-05-14 24 Dailymotion

Unofficial fighting in eastern Ukraine continues to draw in volunteers from other parts of the country. Since pro-Russian separatists forced Ukrainian troops out of Debaltseve in mid-February after the Minsk cease-fire agreement was signed, there have been sporadic exchanges of fire. <br /><br /> Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has called it a pseudo cease-fire and said nearly 11,000 Russian troops are currently deployed in Ukraine.<br /><br /> Our correspondent Beatrix Asboth talked to a soldier from Ukraine’s Hungarian minority. Peter Filipovics lives just a few kilometres from the Hungarian border in Ukraine’s western extremity.<br /><br /> Filipovics said: “When they agreed to the Minsk Protocol, we got the heaviest shelling and the so called recapturing of Debaltseve. That’s how we experienced their commitment to Minsk.”<br /><br /> Uzghorod, the capital of the Transcarpathia region, was once Hungarian. Mostly Ukrainians live here now. Right at the Slovakian border and only 26 kilometres from Hungary, it is both a

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