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Financial Times: Flare-up in fighting in eastern Ukraine leaves at least 20 dead

By Financial Times.

Published June 28, 2018 at 9:08 pm

A Ukrainian soldier fires a machine gun in the direction of Russia-backed separatists during night combat near the southeastern city of Mariupol late on June 10, 2018.Germany and France voiced cautious optimism on June 11, 2018, that Russia and Ukraine will take steps to revive the long-stalled peace process in the smouldering Ukraine war that has claimed 10,000 lives. Despite high tensions between Western powers and President Vladimir Putin's Russia, the four foreign ministers held their first meeting since early last year to revitalise a long ignored truce agreement.

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Ukraine said on June 28 that a flare-up in fighting in breakaway eastern regions had claimed the lives of five Ukrainian soldiers and at least 15 fighters allied to Russian-backed separatists.

Kyiv’s announcement came hours after US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, said they would meet at a summit in Helsinki on July 16.