INTENSIFIED fighting in eastern Ukraine may lead to a “senseless repeat” of the suffering and bloodshed that engulfed the port city of Mariupol, an international refugee charity warned today.
Several areas of the region are already in ruins, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) said in a statement, following a five-day visit to the country by general secretary Jan Egeland.
“The escalation of war in east Ukraine will result in horrific bloodshed and mass displacement from the eastern regions, including Luhansk and Donetsk, retraumatising communities who have already suffered eight years of hostilities,” Mr Egeland said.
As Britain marks 80 years since defeating fascism, it finds itself in a proxy war against Russia over Ukraine — DANIEL POWELL examines Churchill’s secret plan to attack our Soviet allies in 1945 and traces how Nato expansion, a Western-backed coup and neo-nazi activism contributed to todays' devastating conflict



