Vuhlehirsk, ghost town ... It was emptied of its inhabitants in recent days after the evacuation organized by separatist forces now fully control the scene. There are only a few civilians hiding in cellars or basements. Outside, in the streets, corpses litter the ground.
In Kiev, a military spokesman said the fighting continued, but journalists have turned these images and freely travel to about 60% of the city and have not seen Ukrainian soldiers. The rebel artillery deployed Vuhlehirsk shoots Debaltseve, key city puisqu'important railway junction between Donetsk and Luhansk.
Donetsk on Wednesday when two shells hit a hospital near a residential building.
Four civilians were killed. Among them, the son of the woman who testified:
"There was a huge explosion, I fell to the ground and my son walked there, it's my son down. "
While the last attempt at peace negotiations failed Saturday the head of European diplomacy Federica Mogherini called the belligerents to a truce "immediate" at least three days in all Ukrainian cities in the front line for the civilians to flee the fighting.
And despite calls from Kiev, Germany and France do not intend at this stage supply weapons to the Ukrainian forces.
Petro Poroshenko now expects a lot from the visit of US Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday in Kiev. The United States considering the supply of arms to the Ukrainian forces.
Since the conflict began there 10 months, more than 5,300 people were killed in eastern Ukraine.
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