Zinaida Patskan, 80, stands in front
of her destroyed house following a shelling from Ukrainian government
forces in Semyonovka village near the major highway which links Kharkiv,
outside Slovyansk, Ukraine, Thursday, May 22, 2014. The election is a
critical step for Ukraine. Russia, which the West alleges is fomenting
the unrest that grips Ukraine’s eastern regions, claims the acting
government is a junta; a credible election would bring a level of
legitimacy to the government and undermine Moscow’s argument. More pics after cut..
Ukrainian soldiers look at charred
APCs at a gunfight site near the village of Blahodatne, eastern Ukraine,
on Thursday, May 22, 2014. At least 11 Ukrainian troops were killed and
about 30 others were wounded when Pro-Russians attacked a military
checkpoint, the deadliest raid in the weeks of fighting in eastern
Ukraine. Three charred Ukrainian armored infantry vehicles, their
turrets blown away by powerful explosions, and several burned vehicles
stood at the site of the combat.
Zinaida Patskan, 80, holds her pet cat
Timofey in her destroyed house following a shelling from Ukrainian
government forces in Semyonovka village near the major highway which
links Kharkiv, outside Slovyansk, Ukraine, Thursday, May 22, 2014. The
election is a critical step for Ukraine. Russia, which the West alleges
is fomenting the unrest that grips Ukraine’s eastern regions, claims the
acting government is a junta; a credible election would bring a level
of legitimacy to the government and undermine Moscow’s argument.
FILE - This, Sunday, May 18, 2014,
file photo, shows a body guard of insurgent leader Denis Pushilin, left,
holding his weapon during a rally by pro-Russian people in Lenin
Square, in Donetsk, Ukraine. In the streets of Donetsk, the separatist
leaders and their followers are increasingly derided as a collection of
heavily armed, barely employed misfits. Outside of the rebels'
headquarters, it can be difficult to find anyone who agrees with their
calls to secede from Ukraine and link this part of the country — with
its generations of ethnic and linguistic ties to Russia — to Moscow.
Zinaida Patskan, 80, stands in her
destroyed house following a shelling from Ukrainian government forces in
Semyonovka village near the major highway which links Kharkiv, outside
Slovyansk, Ukraine, Thursday, May 22, 2014. The election is a critical
step for Ukraine. Russia, which the West alleges is fomenting the unrest
that grips Ukraine’s eastern regions, claims the acting government is a
junta; a credible election would bring a level of legitimacy to the
government and undermine Moscow’s argument.
Ukrainian soldiers stand on a road
behind charred APCs, near the village of Blahodatne, eastern Ukraine, on
Thursday, May 22, 2014. At least 11 Ukrainian troops were killed and
about 30 others were wounded when Pro-Russians attacked a military
checkpoint, the deadliest raid in the weeks of fighting in eastern
Ukraine. Three charred Ukrainian armored infantry vehicles, their
turrets blown away by powerful explosions, and several burned vehicles
stood at the site of the combat.
Zinaida Patskan, 80, stands in her
destroyed house following a shelling from Ukrainian government forces in
Semyonovka village near the major highway which links Kharkiv, outside
Slovyansk, Ukraine, Thursday, May 22, 2014. The election is a critical
step for Ukraine. Russia, which the West alleges is fomenting the unrest
that grips Ukraine’s eastern regions, claims the acting government is a
junta; a credible election would bring a level of legitimacy to the
government and undermine Moscow’s argument.
Zinaida Patskan, 80, stands in her
destroyed house following a shelling from Ukrainian government forces in
Semyonovka village near the major highway which links Kharkiv, outside
Slovyansk, Ukraine, Thursday, May 22, 2014. The election is a critical
step for Ukraine. Russia, which the West alleges is fomenting the unrest
that grips Ukraine’s eastern regions, claims the acting government is a
junta; a credible election would bring a level of legitimacy to the
government and undermine Moscow’s argument.
Ukrainian officers inspect the
firefight site near the village of Blahodatne, eastern Ukraine, on
Thursday, May 22, 2014. At least 11 Ukrainian troops were killed and
about 30 others were wounded when Pro-Russians attacked a military
checkpoint, the deadliest raid in the weeks of fighting in eastern
Ukraine. Three charred Ukrainian armored infantry vehicles, their
turrets blown away by powerful explosions, and several burned vehicles
stood at the site of the combat.
An Ukrainian soldier walks at a
gunfight site near the village of Blahodatne, eastern Ukraine, on
Thursday, May 22, 2014. At least 11 Ukrainian troops were killed and
about 30 others were wounded when Pro-Russians attacked a military
checkpoint, the deadliest raid in the weeks of fighting in eastern
Ukraine. Three charred Ukrainian armored infantry vehicles, their
turrets blown away by powerful explosions, and several burned vehicles
stood at the site of the combat.
Source: The Associated Press
Defense Ministry said Thursday, even as fighting raged between
pro-Russian insurgents and government forces in eastern Ukraine. 
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