Foreign Mercenaries Fighting with Ukraine Armed Forces in Mariupol Area

The Ukrainian forces have violated the ceasefire regime 46 times over the last 24 hours, the Donetsk People’s Republic defense ministry said on Thursday. The Kiev forces used multiple rocket launchers, artillery, battle tanks, anti-aircraft guns and small arms, the defense ministry said. A lot of settlements and cities of DPR came under fire were.

Kiev uses foreign mercenaries against the DPR, DPR Defence Ministry spokesman Eduard Basurin said on Thursday. Basurin noted that among them were “Croats, Poles, Lithuanians, Norwegians, Danes and even Germans” who are fighting with the Ukrainian forces against the Donetsk and Luhansk republics. Foreign mercenaries are particularly numerous in the Mariupol area.

Four civilians were killed and over 70 injured in a massive attack by the militants on several districts of the city of Aleppo in Syria. Clashes between government forces and terrorists in western Aleppo also left five militants dead. Aleppo is now divided between government forces that largely control the west of the city and the militants that have a strong presence in the east.

Israeli forces have detained 550 Palestinians, including women and children, in the occupied West Bank since the beginning of 2015. The detainees, who were arrested in the southern city of al-Khalil, included seven women and 105 teenagers, Amjad Najjar, the head of the Palestinian Prisoners Society in al-Khalil, said on Thursday. We remember, over 7,000 Palestinians are reportedly incarcerated in 17 Israeli prisons and detention camps.


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