Donetsk International Airport

According to the report, the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to suffer significant losses during unsuccessful attempts to conduct offensive operations in the southern and Donetsk directions. "Kyiv lost over 400 soldiers in one day," the Russian Ministry claims.

The Ukrainian army announced on Saturday the first death of its soldier in weeks. He received a fatal shrapnel wound in the conflict zone. The Emergency Service of Ukraine reported two others who were injured during a wave of shootings in the same area.

Leaders of the Separatists in Eastern Ukraine have announced General Military Mobilization

Dejan "Deki" Beric, a Serb man who is fighting on the side of the rebels in Donbass, has been wounded on the frontline, reports on social networks said.

Yana Agafonova, a media official in the pro-Russian rebel government in eastern Ukraine, says critical publications are not welcome in the separatist region, which is locked in a vicious propaganda war with Kyiv.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has told MPs that the military should prepare to defend against a Russian invasion of great magnitude, as eastern Ukraine has been suffering from recent surges of violence.

Fighting in eastern Ukraine has escalated over the past 24 hours, leaving six government troops dead and 12 wounded, a Ukrainian military spokesman said on Tuesday.

Rescuers found 32 bodies of miners in the Zasyadko mine in eastern Ukraine a day after a blast ripped through the shaft, a rebel official said on March 5.
      

A shaky truce in Ukraine was already at risk on its second day Feb. 16 with both the Kyiv government and pro-Russian separatists accusing each other of attacks holding up an agreed pull-back of heavy weapons from the frontline.
       

French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel will travel to a Ukraine peace summit in Minsk on Wednesday to "try everything right to the end," the French presidency said.
      

 Diplomats scrambled on Feb. 10 to finalise a peace deal for war-torn Ukraine ahead of a crunch summit in Minsk, with the warring sides pushing to gain ground ahead of any truce.