Phillips visits Donetsk airport, where the fighting continues. Completed at a cost of $500 million in 2012, it was a huge infrastructure project. Now it has been reduced to post-apocalyptic rubble
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The Donetsk airport story is truly bizarre. Seen as strategically important by both sides, both sides have been fighting fiercely to control it, ceasefire be damned.
The Resistance fighters are now in posession, having taken the airport in building-to-building fighting reminiscent of Stalingrad, and now they are being shelled by Ukrainian forces from a distance.
Check out the astounding photographs below the video. The airport was brand new in 2012, at a cost of $500 million, and was the pride of East Ukraine, its largest infrastructure project, one of the largest in the country. Now it looks like a scene from Mad Max.
An indication of the ferocity of the war, both sides seemed to be saying, "If we can't have it, we'll make sure you won't be able to use it too." Scorched earth, just like in WW2.
If you haven't yet watched Graham's material on YouTube, his recent escapades inside a Soviet bunker with the looming dangers of mortar attack wasn't enough of a threat to him to deter him from pressing deeper into the conflict.
His recent investigations have led him right into the heat of the airport battle.
In this latest front of the civil war, Graham delivers unique first-hand footage.
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