Hundreds Killed Since Ceasefire in Eastern Ukraine; U.S. Sends Non-Lethal …

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The United Nations says violence in eastern Ukraine is worsening despite a more than two-month-old ceasefire. An average of 13 people a day have been killed since the Ukrainian government reached a truce with separatist rebels in early September. More than 4,300 people have been killed and nearly half a million internally displaced since fighting erupted in April. Speaking in Geneva, U.N. official Gianni Magazzeni said eastern Ukraine has seen a “total breakdown in the rule of law.”

Gianni Magazzeni: “Civilians continue to be killed, illegally detained, tortured. They are disappearing, and the number of internally displaced is growing, especially in the eastern part of Ukraine, where there is a total breakdown in the rule of law and there is very little, if we can talk about protection, very little protection, if any at all, no procedural guarantees, no respect of international human rights norms.”

The U.N.’s warning comes as Vice President Joe Biden is in Kyiv to announce a new increase in non-lethal military aid to the Ukrainian military. The U.S. will supply its first shipment of Humvee vehicles after ruling out weapons for now. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko had asked for lethal military aid during a visit to Washington in September.

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