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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accuses Ukraine of violating an accord reached in Geneva last week aimed at averting a wider conflict between the two neighbours.
At least two people were killed in a gun battle in eastern Ukraine. The outbreak of fighting in Slaviansk broke the uneasy silence that had fallen on the area after Kiev promised a truce over Easter.
Armed pro-Russian separatists who occupied buildings in eastern Ukraine are refusing to leave, despite an amnesty offer and threats of “more concrete actions” to remove them next week.
After international talks in Geneva, the Russian foreign minister and the US Secretary of State both call for “de-escalation” in Ukraine and agree to expand an international monitoring mission.
It is not just protest groups using social media nowadays: governments are getting in on the act – and in unstable eastern Ukraine, Facebook has become a tool of conflict.
Ahead of a conference on the Ukraine crisis, Nato says it will reinforce its forces in eastern Europe, with “deployments at sea, in the air, on land” within days.
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Lindsey Hilsum travels through the farmlands outside Donetsk with a convoy of pro-Russian separatists, as they move to confront a group of Ukrainian army soldiers.
William Hague says Britain will back sanctions despite the risks to the City. But has the importance of Russian money to the British economy been overstated?
Pro-Russian protesters clash with Ukrainian soldiers in the country’s east, as Kiev tries to control the unrest it blames on Russian agitators.
Pro-Russian protesters respond to Kiev’s deadline to leave buildings by seizing more, as Foreign Secretary William Hague says there is “no real doubt” Russia is behind the unrest.
Reports of death and injury on both sides as Ukraine’s security forces attempt to take back buildings in the east of the country which have been occupied by pro-Russian gunmen.
Ukraine’s acting president says Russia is waging war against his country by sowing disorder in the east, and launches a “full-scale anti-terrorist operation” against pro-Russian separatists.
Ukraine’s interior minister Arsen Avakov says attacks by pro-Russian armed gunmen in cities across eastern Ukraine are an “act of aggression” by Russia, and Ukraine’s defence units are responding.
A new human impact of US visa bans and asset freezes against Russia emerges with news that concerts by Miley Cyrus and Justin Timberlake could be called off because of sanctions.
Philip Hammond says Russia could face further sanctions as the country’s leaders hit back at the west for targeting individual citizens.