Trade blockade in east Ukraine riles rebels and Kiev

A locomotive with some 30 empty wagons stands halted before a makeshift barricade of wooden boards and barbed wire. Originally heading to rebel-held areas in east Ukraine to fill up with coal to sell back in government territory, it has been stuck for a month at a blockade by nationalist protesters and military veterans against ongoing trade with Russian-backed insurgents. The action has managed a rare feat in Ukraine -- it has united both the separatists who control swathes of its industrial heartland and the pro-Western government in anger, hitting key industries and threatening power outages.