The Ukrainian army is trying to make sure its message gets across in foreign media, but as FRANCE 24's Gulliver Cragg reports, it has not succeeded in drowning out Russian and separatist propaganda in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine.
After Thursday’s uptick in violence in Donbas, the Ukrainian army had one main message, expressed by Oleksandr Pavluk, Commander of Joint Forces Operation, the Ukrainian army in Donbas: "We returned fire only when there was a threat to the lives of our servicemen, after exhausting all attempts to get a ceasefire via the OSCE and our coordination group with Russia."
