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A pro-Russian separatist fires his machine gun towards Ukrainian army positions near Debaltseve

19 civilians killed in fighting in eastern Ukraine

Twenty-four people, including 19 civilians, have been killed in the past 24 hours in clashes between government forces and pro-Russian rebels in east Ukraine, officials said this morning.

News • 31 Jan 15

The Ukrainian president holds up a piece of the bus destroyed in today’s attack at the World Economic Forum in Davos

Ukraine leader speaks out after fatal bus attack

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said that pro-Russian rebels will pay a "high price" for their escalating attacks on government forces across the separatist east.

News • 22 Jan 15

Donetsk airport is of strategic value to both sides

Ukraine troops recapture most of Donetsk airport

Ukrainian troops have recaptured almost all the territory of Donetsk airport in eastern Ukraine.

News • 18 Jan 15

More than 4,300 people have been killed in the fighting in eastern Ukraine

Five civilians killed in Ukrainian violence

Five civilians have been killed in fresh violence in eastern Ukraine.

News • 07 Dec 14

Pro-Russian rebels standing guard near the airport in Donetsk

Temporary ceasefire agreed in Donetsk

Ukraine's military have said that its forces and separatist generals have agreed a temporary ceasefire around the airport in rebel-held Donetsk that has been the focus of fighting for months.

News • 01 Dec 14

Locals walk through the streets of Donetsk, which has seen heavy shelling this weekend

Shelling in eastern Ukraine strains ceasefire

Heavy shelling around the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk has increased strains on a two-month-old ceasefire between Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russian separatists.

News • 09 Nov 14

Alexander Zakharchenko is on course to be confirmed in his post in Donetsk

EU says east Ukraine vote an obstacle to peace

An election of separatist leaders in eastern Ukraine is an obstacle to peace and the European Union will not recognise it, the EU's new foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said.

News • 02 Nov 14

One of the main attacks took place at the ruins of the airport in Donetsk

Six Ukrainian soldiers killed in 24 hours

Six Ukrainian soldiers have been killed by pro-Russian rebels in the last 24 hours, a government official has said.

News • 01 Nov 14

The elections will take place in pro-Russian areas of Donetsk and Lugansk

Russia to recognise Ukrainian rebel votes

Russia plans to recognise elections being organised next weekend by rebels in eastern Ukraine in defiance of the government in Kiev, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview.

News • 28 Oct 14

The carcasses of a destroyed aeroplane is seen on the tarmac at Donetsk's Sergey Prokofiev international airport

Three Ukrainian soldiers die in rebel clashes

Three Ukrainian soldiers have been killed fighting pro-Russian rebels, the government said today, as fighting engulfed a key airport in the east of the country.

World • 16 Oct 14

All but completely controlled by pro-Russian separatists, Donetsk has come under increased crossfire in recent days

Three killed in shelling in Donetsk

Shelling in eastern Ukraine's rebel-held city of Donetsk killed three people over the past 24 hours, local authorities said this morning, in the latest deadly violations of a ceasefire.

News • 11 Oct 14

A Ukrainian armored personnel carrier patrols along a road leading to the town of Debaltseve in the Donetsk region

12 killed in Ukraine as fighting rages

Seven Ukrainian civilians and five government soldiers have been killed in the past day of clashes with pro-Russian insurgents despite a truce between the two sides.

News • 07 Oct 14

Black smoke rises above the International Airport in Donetsk

Swiss aid worker killed by shelling in Ukraine

The International Committee of the Red Cross has confirmed that a Swiss staff member was killed today by a shell that landed close to its office in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine.

News • 02 Oct 14

Ukrainian soldiers guard a check point near Mariupol

Eastern Ukraine offered limited self-rule

Ukraine's president has offered parts of the country's separatist east limited self-rule for three years under the terms of a peace plan reached with Russia.

News • 15 Sep 14

Three residents injured when pro-Russian rebels opened fire on a government-held checkpoint Pic: courtesy of EPA

One woman killed, four injured in Ukraine

A woman has died and at least four people have been injured when fighting flared again in eastern Ukraine.

News • 07 Sep 14

Ukrainian troops ride on a tank and a self-propelled gun near the eastern city of Luhansk

Inspections under way for aid in eastern Ukraine

Border inspection has begun for a humanitarian aid convoy attempting to enter the rebel held areas of Donetsk and Luhansk.

News • 21 Aug 14

The shell landed in the garden of a house in a small town on the Russian called Donetsk

Russia threatens Ukraine after fatal shell attack

Russia has threatened Ukraine with "irreversible consequences" after a man was killed by a shell fired across its border.

News • 14 Jul 14

Anatoly Klyan was shot in the stomach after his film crew came under fire

Russian journalist killed in Ukraine

A cameraman for Russia's state-owned Channel One television channel was killed overnight in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region, the third Russian journalist to die in the conflict.

News • 30 Jun 14

Separatists have been battling Ukrainian forces after seizing the city's international airport

50 killed in clashes in Donetsk

More than 50 pro-Russian rebels were killed in an unprecedented assault by Ukrainian government forces, which raged into a second day today.

News • 27 May 14

Smoke billows from the airport in Donetsk

Heavy fighting at airport in Ukraine

Three Ukrainian helicopter gunships have mounted a heavy attack on the rebel-held international airport terminal at Donetsk.

News • 26 May 14

Ukrainian soldiers take position at a checkpoint near the eastern Ukranian city of Slaviansk

Seven soldiers killed in eastern Ukraine ambush

Seven Ukrainian soldiers were killed when their armoured column was ambushed by pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine today, the defence ministry and state security service said.

News • 13 May 14

Members of a local election commission empty ballot boxes in Luhansk in eastern Ukraine

Ukraine: EU foreign ministers expand sanctions

EU foreign ministers meeting in Brussels have imposed visa bans and asset freezes on a further 13 individuals accused of being responsible for de-stabilising eastern Ukraine.