• Ukrainian servicemen rest at a position in the village of Novoluganskoye near Artemivsk, Donetsk region, on Thursday. The leaders of Ukraine, Germany, France and Russia pledged the same day to try to save a tattered cease-fire in eastern Ukraine despite violations — including the storming of the key town of Debaltseve by pro-Russian rebels. | AFP-JIJI
    Ukrainian servicemen rest at a position in the village of Novoluganskoye near Artemivsk, Donetsk region, on Thursday. The leaders of Ukraine, Germany, France and Russia pledged the same day to try to save a tattered cease-fire in eastern Ukraine despite violations — including the storming of the key town of Debaltseve by pro-Russian rebels. | AFP-JIJI

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ARTEMIVSK/VUHLEHIRSK, UKRAINE – Fighting raged in eastern Ukraine on Thursday despite European efforts to resurrect a stillborn cease-fire, a day after pro-Russian separatists spurned the truce by forcing thousands of government troops out of a strategic town.

Western nations are refusing to give up on a peace deal brokered by France and Germany last week even though the rebels disavowed it to seize the important railway hub of Debaltseve.

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