Ukrainian army soldier from battalion ‘Aydar’ looks on as local residents leave the village of Metalist near the eastern Ukrainian city of Luhansk July 11, 2014. REUTERS-Viktor Gurniak
(Reuters) – Ukrainian war planes bombarded separatists along a broad front on Saturday, inflicting huge losses, Kiev said, after President Petro Poroshenko said “scores and hundreds” would be made to pay for a deadly missile attack on Ukrainian forces.
In exchanges marking a sharp escalation in the three-month conflict, jets struck at the “epicenter” of the battle against the rebels close to the border with Russia, a military spokesman said.
The planes targeted positions from where separatists using high-powered Grad missiles bombarded an army motorized brigade on Friday, killing 23 servicemen.
Warplanes also struck at targets near Donetsk, the east’s main town where rebels have dug in, destroying a powerful fighter base near Dzerzhinsk, Andriy Lysenko, a spokesman for the “anti-terrorist operation” said.
“According to preliminary assessment, Ukrainian pilots … killed about 500 (rebel) fighters and damaged two armored transporters,” Lysenko told journalists.
In an earlier air attack on a base near Perevalsk, north of Donetsk, two tanks, 10 armored vehicles and “about 500” rebel fighters were destroyed, he said.
Rebel representatives, quoted by Russian news agencies, denied they had suffered big losses and said the Ukrainians were using outdated intelligence about where separatist forces were deployed.
End Time Bible Prophecy 
Once again, in another region of the world, its just like Jesus said: Brother against Brother!
Once again, again and again: Its just as Jesus said: Brother against Brother. Let us keep Praying!