Donbas Battalion Combats Separatist Insurgency: Pro-Ukraine militia sets up camp south of Donetsk

A pro-Ukrainian militia has set up camp in Velyka Novoselka, a small town about 150 kilometres south of Donetsk. The volunteer fighters have pledged to defend the small town and surrounding area people from Kremlin-backed insurgents, who began seizing government buildings in northern Donetsk and Luhansk regions in March following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula. Surveys indicate that the vast majority of Ukrainians, including most residents of eastern and southern Ukraine, oppose ef