Ukraine's Azov regiment claims to have launched offensive on Novoazovsk

10:04, 10.02.2015 1 min read

Ukraine's Azov regiment announced on its VKontakte page that on Tuesday morning its servicemen launched an offensive toward the town of Novoazovsk in the Donetsk region.

"The locality of Shyrokyne was under our control as of 8:00 a.m. Intense fighting is under way," it said.

Both sides are using different types of weapons, the regiment said.

"Azov is going onto the offensive on Sakhanka," it said adding that the Russian air forces crossed the border three times, but did not deliver strikes on Ukrainian forces.