Flags were flown at half mast in Kiev to commemorate the 13 civilians killed Tuesday in a bus hit by a rocket that was a Ukrainian dam Volnovakha. It is the bloody attack against civilians since the Minsk peace accords in September. Kiev has challenged the rebels who reject their side the responsibility on the Ukrainian troops.
This renewed violence in eastern reacted Oleksandre Turchinov during a debate in parliament. The secretary of the Ukrainian National Security Council discussed before MPs "two scenarios" for the future of the country, "the first is the resumption of large-scale hostilities and attacks with the active participation of the Russian armed forces, the consequences could become a continental war on a large scale. The second scenario involves Kremlin's attempts to prevent the stabilization of the situation in Ukraine "to exhaust economically and militarily."
Faced with this threat, the Kiev authorities have adopted a law this year three waves of "partial mobilization" of which the first will begin on 20 January and will affect approximately 50,000 people.
And it is in this context very tense as observers from the OSCE visited the rebel stronghold of Donetsk, one of the hotspots of the conflict under the protection of Russian and Ukrainian military.
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