Eastern Ukraine Fighting Kills 4 Civilians

Four civilians were killed and nine wounded by shrapnel during fighting on Saturday and Sunday in eastern Ukraine's separatist stronghold city of Donetsk, local officials said. Pro-Russian rebels and government forces have continued to clash on the city's outskirts despite a Sept. 5 cease-fire accord that has generally contained violence in other parts of the country's contested east. Speaking at a daily security briefing in Kyiv on Sunday, military spokesman Andriy Lysenko...

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