Hundreds of artillery shells have exploded in recent days along the line of contact between Ukrainian military personnel and the Russian-backed separatists in the eastern Donbass region. This is where the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics are located, which seceded from Ukraine in 2014.
Pro-Russian rebels claimed the deaths of two civilians by the Ukrainian government army on Sunday. That would have attacked a village near the Russian border. The report of the deaths came from the Russian news agency Interfax. The news could not be confirmed by independent sources.
Russia has said it is investigating what exactly happened. The West thinks that Russia is spreading fake news about Ukrainian aggression in the Donbass region as a reason to invade the country. ,,My Ukrainian friends and I think so too”, the Dutchman says over the phone from Kiev, which is about 600 kilometers to the west.
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