After 10 hours of fighting at a building housing a Ukrainian national guard regiment near the city of Luhansk, soldiers ran out of ammunition, the national guard said.
The battle began when more than 300 heavily armed insurgents opened fire on the base from positions in residential apartment buildings and on rooftops.
Six militants were killed, three Ukrainian soldiers were injured and the rebels eventually took control of the building.
Separatists also overran a border guard base just outside Luhansk after two days of fierce fighting. The border service said the troops on the base had been “redeployed.” But a YouTube video suggested a more ignominious defeat, showing Ukrainian troops in civilian clothes filing out past watchful rebels and carrying tote bags containing their belongings.
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