Fighting Smolders in Ukraine Amid Bid for Buffer Zone
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Fighting continued in several parts of eastern Ukraine amid moves to establish a buffer zone aimed at cementing a wobbly, monthlong truce between government forces and pro-Russian separatists.
One Ukrainian soldier was killed and 13 were wounded in skirmishes over the past 24 hours, Ukrainian military spokesman Andriy Lysenko told reporters in Kiev today. There was fighting in Donetsk where separatists made “another failed attempt to storm” the airport, he said, adding that the airport remains under the control of government forces and is still operational.