UN: Around 1,300 Killed in Ukraine Since Cease-fire

Around 1,300 people have been killed in Ukraine's separatist conflict since a September cease-fire, according to a U.N. report that said many living in the country's rebel-held east were struggling to survive. As of Dec. 12, 4,707 combatants and civilians had been killed since pro-Russian rebels seized eastern regions near the border with Russia in April. Of these deaths, 1,357, or nearly 30 percent, were recorded after the Sept. 5 truce, some of which may have occurred prior...

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