More deaths in Ukraine conflict
Fresh fighting between Ukraine’s military and Russia-backed separatists has killed at least eight civilians, officials in eastern Ukraine said Tuesday.
At least 22 people were wounded in the fierce outbreak of shelling over the previous 24 hours, Kyiv and rebel officials said.
“It was flying all over the place, shrapnel, everything. From the top, everything burnt down. All the clothes that you see us wearing, this is all we have left now,” said Donetsk resident Valentina Voloshina.
Fighting has raged in and around the self-declared separatist Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics, especially around the Kyiv-controlled town of Debaltseve, since peace talks in Belarus between Ukraine’s government and the separatists collapsed Saturday.