Russia's War Against Ukraine
OP-ED
Irena Chapula: A ‘dirty war’ in Donetsk
Until last week Volodymyr Rybak, 42, was a municipal councilor in Horlivka, a coal-mining city 20 miles northeast of Donetsk. Rybak opposed the takeover of his city’s government by the gunmen who have proclaimed a separatist Donetsk People’s Republic in southeastern Ukraine. On April 17 he and some friends got into a shoving match with the gunmen when he tried to enter city hall. At one point, Rybak tried to remove the separatists’ flag hung from outside the office building.