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Ukraine fighting reaches rebel-held Donetsk

By Yuras Karmanau
Published August 5, 2014 4:44pm ET
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Ukraine fighting reaches rebel-held Donetsk
Rescue workers carry the body of woman who was killed during shelling in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014. Ukrainian troops took control of a checkpoint Tuesday on the western edge of the main rebel stronghold of Donetsk as the government makes further gradual advances to quash pro-Russian separatist forces in the east. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits) | Sergei Grits

DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — Fighting in eastern Ukraine reached the main rebel stronghold of Donetsk on Tuesday as separatists and government troops exchanged rocket fire in neighborhoods on the edge of the city.

In a western district of Donetsk, rockets apparently fired from a government position landed in the courtyard of a one-story house, killing an elderly resident.

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