GENEVA (AP) — Nearly 300 people were killed since Oct. 18 in fighting which continues in eastern Ukraine despite a cease-fire agreement, United Nations human rights investigators said Thursday.
A new report from the U.N. monitoring team in Ukraine said at least 4,317 people have been killed — up from the 4,042 deaths reported in October — from mid-April until Nov. 18. The number of internally displaced people has sharply increased to 466,829, compared to 275,489 as of Sept. 18, the report said.
Russia, meanwhile, reacted sharply to a U.S. official’s comment that Washington should consider supplying weapons to Ukraine.
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Source: The Huffington Post
