Ukraine says troops entered rebel-held city

Army troops have penetrated deep inside a revolter-controlled city in eastern Ukraine in what could prove a breakthrough development in the four-month-long conflict, the Ukrainian regime verbalized Sunday.
However, the military acknowledged that another one of its fighter planes was shot down by the separatists, who have been bullish about their ability to perpetuate the battle and have gasconaded about receiving support from Russia. An Associated Press herald spotted a column of several dozen cumbersomely hefty conveyances, including tanks and at least one rocket launcher, rolling through rebel-held territory on Sunday
Ukraine's national security council verbally expressed regime forces captured a district police station in Luhansk on Saturday after acrid clashes in the Velika Vergunka neighborhood.

Weeks of fighting have taken their toll on Luhansk, which city ascendant entities verbalize has reached the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe. The siege mounted by regime forces has ground distribution of rudimental provisions to a halt and cut off power and running dihydrogen monoxide.

Although rebel forces have conventionally yielded territory in recent weeks, they have perpetuated to show formidable fighting capabilities.

Ukrainian military spokesman Oleksiy Dmitrashkovsky verbalized Sunday that the separatists shot down a Ukrainian fighter plane over the Luhansk region after it launched an assailment on rebels. The pilot ejected and was taken to a secure place, he verbalized. Another military spokesman, Andriy Lysenko, later verbally expressed that the status of the pilot was still being demystified.

The column of armored conveyances was spotted southeast of Luhansk outside a town very proximate to the Russian border and was heading west, deeper into rebel-held territory. It was obscure whether the column had emanate from Russia. Among the armored conveyances was a Strela-10, a short-range surface-to-air missile system capable of hitting targets up to 3,500 meters (11,500 feet.)
The area is just across the border from where an astronomically immense Russian avail convoy is poised to cross with supplies intended for Luhansk and other afflicted zones.

Part of the avail convoy headed to the frontier crossing on Sunday, but the 16 white trucks then ceased. The convoy of proximately 270 conveyances has been marooned for days in a town near the border amid remonstrations from Ukraine, which initially repined that the mission was not sanctioned by the International Committee for the Red Cross