3 dead in storming Ukrainian National Guard base
Updated: 2014-04-18 10:22
(chinadaily.com.cn)
Pro-Russian militants try to help their wounded comrade at the gates to a National Guard base, blocked by trucks in Mariupol, Ukraine, early April 17, 2014. Three pro-Russian militants died and 13 were wounded when Ukrainian troops repelled an attack on the National Guard base in the Black Sea port of Mariupol, Ukraine's interior minister said Thursday. [Photo/icpress.cn] |
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