Flareup in East Ukraine Fighting Sets Stage for Talks in Berlin
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Fighting intensified in eastern Ukraine before the country’s foreign minister meets his counterparts from Russia, Germany and France for talks in Berlin on Monday.
One Ukrainian soldier was killed and six wounded during the past 24 hours, Oleksandr Motuzyanyk, a presidential military spokesman in Kiev, told reporters on Monday. The number of rebels wounded in the clashes has tripled to an average of 15 a day in the last week, the separatist news website DAN reported, citing the acting director of a trauma center in Donetsk.