DONETSK - Ukraine dispatched top envoys to Washington and Brussels on Oct. 8 to secure help in the face of a surge in clashes with pro-Russian insurgents that killed eight more civilians and troops.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
Agence France-Presse: Ukraine lobbies NATO, IMF as deaths mount
An injured man kneels on the ground after a Grad rocket slammed into a shopping mall in Donetsk's Kubishevski district, in the eastern Ukraine, on Oct. 8, 2014.