The pro-Russian separatists assert control over 50% of this strategic city for the first time, the Ukrainian army acknowledged that part of the city had escaped him and that some of its units were surrounded.
All this may take away a little over the prospect of a withdrawal of heavy weapons from the frontline as stipulated Minsk two agreements signed last week.
Putin asked Kiev to let his soldiers to surrender to the rebels. The Russian president also mentioned the establishment of a corridor for the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops so that they return to their families.
Ukrainian military leaders have joked about this request Moscow arguing that a similar scenario in the city of Illovaisk last August, the corridor had closed as a fatal trap for the soldiers of Kiev.
Ukrainian President Poroshenko condemned the rebel offensive and urged the West to impose a "severe response" towards Moscow.
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