After a bloody weekend in eastern Ukraine that left 30 civilians dead and more than 100 wounded, ambassadors from Ukraine and NATO announced that they would hold a special meeting Monday to discuss the recent upswing in fighting near the strategic cities of Mariupol and Debaltseve.
The last such meeting of ambassadors from NATO and Ukraine occurred in August, when fighting between Kiev and Russian-backed rebels spiked. By the second week of September, the conflict’s cumulative casualties reached 3,517 deaths and 8,198 injuries. The ongoing violence in eastern Ukraine had died down after a Sept. 5 ceasefire agreement, but in recent …read more
Source: Foreign Policy
