A sign of where Ukrainian conflict could lead? "like a scene from the Eastern Front in the WWII"

[newthinking]

A sign of where Ukrainian conflict could lead?
Victims of mortar attack stand before their flaming home,
like a scene from the Eastern Front in the Second World War

By Sophie Jane Evans and Will Stewart In Moscow and Wills Robinson
Published: 03:31 EST, 2 July 2014 | Updated: 15:43 EST, 2 July 2014

*Ukrainian officials said one border guard was killed during a mortar strike
*Villages in the Lugansk region were targeted, engulfing homes in flames
*Scenes resemble the trail of destruction left by Hitler's army 70 years ago
*Buildings were set ablaze by ground and air forces between 1941 and 1943

Devastated residents have been forced to flea their burning homes in Ukraine following mortar attacks in scenes reminiscent of the Eastern Front during the Second World War.

Suburban buildings were engulfed in flames and shell craters dotted the ground as strategic positions along the border with Russia were targeted.

The image of devastation in Lugansk is a sign of the escalation in military tensions between Kiev and the Kremlin following the end of a 10-day ceasefire.

But the pictures, which strongly resemble the trail of destruction left by Hitler's forces in the Soviet Union 70 years ago, are also a worrying sign of how the conflict could develop.

Devastation: Victims stand outside a burning house in the village of Nikolayevka in Lugansk in the aftermath of a mortar attack which left a Ukrainian border guard dead





Landmark: A local resident sits near a shell crater following an
air strike carried out by Ukrainian armed forces on Stanitsa Luganskaya in Lugansk, Ukraine


Aerial warfare: This home, captured in 1941, would have been hit during
an air raid during the three-year offensive on the Eastern Front




Scene: A woman grabs onto a metal fence as a house in Lugansk, Ukraine,
burns in the background


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[freshwest]

1. What possible use is all this destruction? Hate the war makers.