Battles intensified on Friday in Ukraine’s breakaway east as Russian-backed separatists raced ahead with massive offensives to capture more territory and surround thousands of government troops in a strategic railway hub before an agreed ceasefire was due to take effect on Sunday.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
Financial Times: Ukraine fighting flares ahead of truce
Ukrainian reserve officers called up during the fourth wave of partial mobilization take part in military exercises in the Army Training Center near the village of Desna, Chernigiv region, on February 13, 2015. Fighting raged in Ukraine today as the clock ticked down to a ceasefire that will be a first test of Kiev and pro-Russian separatists' committment to a freshly-inked peace plan.
