AVDIYIVKA, Ukraine (Reuters) — Monitors on Sunday (May 14) inspected a household in the eastern Ukrainian town of Avdiyivka which was damaged by artillery fire a day earlier. Members of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) monitoring mission inspected the attack site and spoke with local residents who witnessed the incident. Ukrainian authorities said on Saturday (May 13) that four civilians were killed in renewed artillery attacks in the east of the […]
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Gunfight between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian paramilitary kill at least 2
(Reuters) — Gunfire erupted near a makeshift checkpoint manned by pro-Russian separatists near Slaviansk in eastern Ukraine early on Sunday (April 20), killing at least two people. Separatists gave a higher casualty figure, saying they had come under attack from Ukrainian nationalist paramilitary forces. The incident represented the first fatalities in eastern Ukraine since a four-way agreement was reached last Friday in Geneva to de-escalate the situation in eastern Ukraine where separatists are rebelling against Kiev’s pro-western leaders. Though police on the interior […]





