At least 14 people were killed
overnight Friday in an ambush by pro-Russian militiamen at
Shaktiorsk in the separatist region of Donetsk, a Ukrainian
military spokesman said.
The spokesman, Alexei Dimitrashkovski, was quoted by the
Interfax agency saying that at least four of the 14 corpses had
not been identified, meaning they could be Ukrainian troops or
separatists, but he conceded that Ukrainian troops had
"undergone serious casualties" in the fighting.
The fighting rekindled after a one day unilateral truce by
Kiev to allow a group of international experts to reach the site
where a downed Malaysian jetliner crashed July 17, killing all
298 people on board.
Also Friday five civilians were killed and nine others
wounded by Ukrainian artillery blasted at the city of Lugansk
over the last 24 hours, according to the local council in the
southeastern Ukrainian city which has been the scene of fierce
fighting between government troops and rebels.
The shelling set off fires and damaged a school and a
commercial centre.
In Donetsk, the main warfront city in southeast Ukraine,
one person was killed and three others wounded during early
morning shelling.
The mayor of Donetsk's press office said that a "grenade
exploded close to a bus, wounding the passengers," one of them
fatally.
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