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Fierce fighting in eastern Ukraine

January 22, 2015 11:00 pm • Last Updated: January 22, 2015 10:59 pm

A Russian-backed separatist rebel takes cover in a shelter from shelling Thursday in the Kievsky district, near the airport in Donetsk, Ukraine. A mortar shell hit a bus in Donetsk on Thursday, killing at least 13 people, the separatist leader in the city said. It was unclear which side was responsible for the attack. Diplomats from Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany met in Berlin Wednesday to thrash out a tentative dividing line from which the warring sides would pull back their heavy weapons. That solution already looks doomed.

A Russian-backed separatist rebel takes cover in a shelter from shelling Thursday in the Kievsky district, near the airport in Donetsk, Ukraine. A mortar shell hit a bus in Donetsk on Thursday, killing at least 13 people, the separatist leader in the city said. It was unclear which side was responsible for the attack. Diplomats from Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany met in Berlin Wednesday to thrash out a tentative dividing line from which the warring sides would pull back their heavy weapons. That solution already looks doomed.

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