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Washington Post: Ukrainian forces clash with pro-Russian separatists in rebel-held eastern city

Published June 3, 2014 at 7:45 pm

A Ukrainian armored personnel carrier was hit by a grenade near the city of Slovyansk in what Ukrainian Acting Interior Minister Arsen Avakov, writing on his Facebook page, called a \u201cvery intense firefight.\u201d

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Ukrainian security forces clashed fiercely with pro-Russian separatists Tuesday near a rebel-held eastern city in increasingly heavy violence between the two sides, making Ukraine’s prospects for hanging on to its eastern provinces look bleaker.