Fighting between government forces and separatists intensified in eastern Ukraine on Monday, with the country’s president ordering his foreign minister to hold urgent talks with his counterparts from Germany, France and Russia about the escalating violence.
The Ukrainian presidential website reported that some 200 separatist fighters using tanks launched an attack around the village of Novolaspa, located halfway between the separatist stronghold of Donetsk and the government-controlled port of Mariupol.
Ukrainian military chief of staff Viktor Muzhenko told President Petro Poroshenko that the attack was repulsed, the presidential website reported. According to other reports, government forces later pulled out of Novolaspa.
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Source: Voice of America
