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Gunfire, airstrikes leave Donetsk International airport up in smoke

26 May 2014 15:00 (UTC +04:00)

Baku – APA. Intensive gunfire and blasts have been heard in the vicinity of Donetsk International Airport in eastern Ukraine, as fighter jets resume strikes at the self-defense forces at the facility, APA reports quoting RT.

The Ukrainian military have resumed bombing the Donetsk airport. Earlier, at least three helicopters were seen flying towards the airport. “The fighter jet is supposedly a Sukhoi Su-27 or Su-25,” a self-defense member told RT. “Helicopters land at the airport, then take off,” the witness said.

“The counter-terror operation started as two Sukhoi Su-25s flew to the airport. They made a warning shot to the area of the terrorists’ location,” Aleksey Dmitrashkovsky, from the SBU press service told the portal. As the self-defense forces fired back, two military choppers, a MiG-29 and Mi-24, were deployed which say the rebels’ forces scattered across the airport. “Paramilitary troops arrived and they are now cleaning the area off,” Dmitrashkovsky said adding he has no information on casualties.