After a brief winter lull, fighting has returned to Ukraine. The past week has seen the renewal of the conflict that has ebbed and flowed around the airport at Donetsk ever since the signing of the Minsk peace agreement between Kyiv, Moscow and the Russia-backed rebels last September.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
Financial Times: Only Russia can halt Ukraine’s drift to war
Ukrainian servicemen carry on January 20, 2015 at Independence Square in Kyiv, the coffin of Sergii Nikonenko, 53, fighter of Azov volunteer battalion, who died during ATO (Anti-Terrrorist Operation) in the east of the country. Russia's defence ministry denied on January 20 as \"absolute nonsense\" the latest accusations by Kyiv that Moscow had sent hundreds of troops over the border into Ukraine.