Fighting Continues In Eastern Ukraine

Pro-Putin Rebels Step Up Attacks in East Ukraine -- Bloomberg Businessweek

Germany’s foreign minister expressed concerns that Russia is seeking to split up Ukraine by supporting separatists in the east and urged further dialogue with President Vladimir Putin’s government.

“I’m taking Russia at its word that it doesn’t want to destroy the unity of Ukraine,” Der Spiegel magazine cited the minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, as saying in an interview. “The reality, however, is speaking a different language.”

The conflict in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions of Ukraine along the Russian border has claimed more than 4,300 lives and laid much of the local infrastructure to waste. The European Union and the U.S. accuse Russia of not abiding by a September truce signed in Minsk, Belarus, and Ukraine says Russian troops and vehicles continue to cross the frontier. Russia denies it’s fomenting the war.

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More News On The Conflict In Ukraine

Further gunfire, but also war of words over crisis in Ukraine -- Euronews
Further gunfire in Donetsk amid war of words between Russia and US -- Malta Today
Ukraine's field army digs in for separatist offensive -- The Telegraph
With Borscht and Rifle Scopes, Volunteers Power Ukraine Forces -- New York Times
Destruction from above: Extraordinary drone footage of Donetsk Airport shows how it has been laid to waste with abandoned planes and shrapnel-covered runway -- Daily Mail
Interview: Ukrainian 'Cyborg' Describes Nine Days Defending Donetsk Airport -- Radio Free Europe
Kiev says Russia has 7,500 troops in Ukraine -- Al Jazeera
Kiev says 7500 Russian troops in Ukraine -- SKY News
Russia Sends Mig-31 Foxhound Fighter Jets To Ukraine Border, In Escalation Of Tension Over Separatist Region: Report -- IBTimes
Ukraine Is Building Armored Battle Buses -- War Is Boring
Special Ops medical team advises Ukrainian soldiers -- Airforce Times
Biden denounces Russia, but says Ukraine must do more to clean up its governance -- Washington Post
New Ukraine Coalition Agreed, Sets NATO As Priority -- Radio Free Europe
Starving, seething and scared: Eastern Ukraine's residents struggle to survive -- CNN
Life in Donetsk: 'Winter will be the ultimate test' -- The Guardian
Russia's Igor Strelkov: I Am Responsible for War in Eastern Ukraine -- Moscow Times
Ukraine conflict: How is the country coping one year on? (Video) -- BBC