The Battle for Donetsk International Airport: Russian Roulette (Dispatch 44)

Subscribe to VICE News here: Only hours after Petro Poroshenko was announced the winner of Ukraine’s presidential elections, the worst violence of the two month long crisis in eastern Ukraine exploded at Donetsk’ Sergei Prokofiev airport. Early on Monday morning, gunmen of the Donetsk Peoples Republic arrived at the airport and took over the terminal building, prompting the Ukrainian military based there to issue an ultimatum to the rebels to lay down their