But on Monday night, the truce finally took full hold as the battalion made an unexpectedly rushed withdrawal and the Ukrainian military locked down the village, taking control beyond its outer perimeter.
Minneapolis garnered national and international attention on Aug. 1, 2007, when the Interstate 35W bridge over the Mississippi River collapsed unexpectedly during rush hour, causing 13 fatalities and nearly 150 injuries.
The snows are still on the paths, 8,500 feet above sea level, and boots slip from side to side, or plunge, unexpectedly, where rushing streams have carved spaces around boulders and glacial moraine.
After Monica Wesolowska gave birth to her first child, a healthy-seeming boy, things took a fast and grim turn: her son, Silvan, was taken from her arms for "observation," rushed unexpectedly through hospital hallways and ultimately given the worst possible prognosis.
As Jack in the Box's E coli outbreak showed, when undercooked burgers were served to meet unexpectedly high demand, the rush for speed permanently damaged children.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was rushed offstage unexpectedly Saturday evening after an incident during a campaign rally in Reno, Nevada.
Here, working with the cinematographer Ben Seresin and some ace sound technicians, he creates an unexpectedly rich world of chugging, rushing trains slicing across equally beautiful industrial and natural landscapes.
And from it, however muted, will emerge recordings of Winston Churchill's voice, speaking to Parliament, to British radio listeners and to American audiences, breaking on the ear like waves, rising and falling with every breath, sometimes suspended unexpectedly in midair, other times rushing forward with renewed vigor.
But when ambulances full of wide-eyed medics and unexpectedly busy police are still rushing around trying to stop the bad things happening, they don't have time to talk to journalists.
(At times he resembled a singer he may never have heard: Aaron Neville from New Orleans, who similarly rushes into a phrase, pauses unexpectedly or sustains an aching note, at once tense and angelic).
