More than 20 people have died in violence in eastern Ukraine as the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany prepare for peace talks.
Nineteen Ukrainian soldiers have been killed, many of them in a town which pro-Russian rebels say they have surrounded.
Five people were reported killed by shelling in dead in rebel-held Donetsk.
Negotiators in Belarus are still trying to narrow differences ahead of Wednesday’s planned peace summit. …read more
Source: National Newswatch
