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| Ukraine crisis: Military losses climb in war for east | Ukraine crisis: Military losses climb in war for east |
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| Government forces in eastern Ukraine have lost 15 soldiers within a day as they push against pro-Russian rebels in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. | Government forces in eastern Ukraine have lost 15 soldiers within a day as they push against pro-Russian rebels in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. |
| Fifteen were killed and 79 injured on Thursday, the government said, two days after 18 were killed - the highest daily death toll reported in weeks. | Fifteen were killed and 79 injured on Thursday, the government said, two days after 18 were killed - the highest daily death toll reported in weeks. |
| Government forces have been accused of bombarding residential areas from the ground and the air, killing civilians. | Government forces have been accused of bombarding residential areas from the ground and the air, killing civilians. |
| International monitors have been surveying damage to homes. | International monitors have been surveying damage to homes. |
| Around 1,500 people, both civilians and combatants, have been killed since Ukraine's new government sent forces into the east in April to put down an armed uprising by the separatists. | Around 1,500 people, both civilians and combatants, have been killed since Ukraine's new government sent forces into the east in April to put down an armed uprising by the separatists. |
| Western sanctions against Russia over its role in events in Ukraine prompted a sharp response from the Kremlin this week when it retaliated by banning most food imports from the US and EU. | Western sanctions against Russia over its role in events in Ukraine prompted a sharp response from the Kremlin this week when it retaliated by banning most food imports from the US and EU. |
| Russia is accused by Western countries of fomenting the rebellion in eastern Ukraine by backing and arming the rebels, though it denies this. | Russia is accused by Western countries of fomenting the rebellion in eastern Ukraine by backing and arming the rebels, though it denies this. |
| In other developments | In other developments |
| Border battle | |
| Fighting erupted as Ukrainian troops on the border with Russia, in Luhansk region, broke out of a rebel encirclement on Friday and rejoined other government forces, military sources told Ukrainian media. | |
| National Security and Defence Council spokesman Andriy Lysenko said that seven soldiers and eight border guards had been killed in the fighting. | |
| On Monday, hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers retreated across the border into Russia after also being trapped by the rebels in Luhansk. They were housed by Russian border guards in a camp after surrendering their weapons. | |
| Many have since returned to Ukraine under Russian escort. | |
| On Thursday, another Ukrainian warplane, a Mig-29 fighter, was shot down over Donetsk region, where air strikes had been reported earlier in the week. | |
| Monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) have been documenting damage to civilian installations in the region. | |
| On Thursday, a team visited a city hospital in Donetsk hit by shells, the OSCE said in a tweet. They also inspected damage to housing in the war-torn town of Shakhtarsk, close to the site of the flight MH17 crash last month, another tweet said. | |
| International investigators suspended their work at the site on Thursday because of nearby fighting. | |
| The destruction of the jet has been blamed in the West on a rebel-fired missile, a charge the separatists deny. |