A pro-Russian separatist at a checkpoint in the northern outskirts of city of Donetsk.
We also have information indicating that Russia is providing training to separatist fighters at a facility in southwest Russia, and this effort included training on air defense systems...
Believing that point should come sooner rather than later, Jackie Nixon, Cambridge graduate and ex-commando, has set up her female separatist commune at a derelict farm on the Cumbrian moors.
Ukraine's army also said that 19 of its soldiers were killed in a day of pro-Russian separatist assaults at a single location near the railway hub of Debaltseve, some of the worst losses it has reported in nine months of war.
"We also have information indicating that Russia is providing training to separatist fighters at a facility in southwest Russia" that includes missile systems, it said.
Two British television journalists also were attacked Monday by separatist protesters at a rally in Donetsk, another eastern city, said Dunja Mijatovic, OSCE media freedom chief.
But Ankara is worried that the Kurds' successes across the border will fire up separatists at home, with whom it has fought a 30-year civil war, and has launched a crackdown on the Kurdistan Workers' party (PKK), which has links to Kurdish fighters in Syria – the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) and its political arm, the Democratic Union party (PYD).
But Ankara is worried that the successes of the Kurds across the border will fire up separatists at home, with whom it has fought a 30-year civil war, and has launched a crackdown on the Kurdistan Workers party (PKK), which has links to the YPG's political arm, the Democratic Union party (PYD).
Turkey, facing an insurgency from Kurdish separatists at home, fears that Syrian Kurdish YPG forces – who have been supported by the U.S. in their fight against IS – will establish an autonomous Kurdish statelet on its southern border.
