Ukraine: the calm broken by the death of a journalist

The pro-Russian separatists are on the road with their tanks near Donetsk. It is ultimately all that prove these images. The OSCE confirms that there is movement but said he was not able to do a complete inventory of the withdrawal of heavy weapons.

The Ukrainian authorities have in any case been a marked lull in the military situation in the day, even when rebels fired rocket launcher on Avdiivka in violation of the cease-fire on 12 February.

Then in the late afternoon, the ukrianienne military said a reporter Ukrainian picture had been mortally wounded by artillery fire in Pisky. This small town in the northeast of Donetsk is normally under the control of the Ukrainian army. Sergei Nikolaev worked for the Segodnya newspaper, he was wounded in the head and died at the hospital.

In two days, four Ukrainian soldiers were also killed.