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Drivers of the first trucks of the Russian aid convoy are parked in the city of Luhansk, eastern Ukraine, Friday, Aug. 22, 2014. The first trucks in a Russian aid convoy crossed into eastern Ukraine on Friday, after more than a week's delay. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

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West condemns Russia over convoy to Ukraine

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August 22, 2014 11:45 pm

Australian and Dutch experts examine a piece of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 plane, near the village of Hrabove, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine Friday, Aug.1, 2014. The investigators from the Netherlands and Australia plus officials with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe traveled from the rebel-held city of Donetsk in 15 cars and a bus to the crash site outside the village of Hrabove. Then they started setting up a base to work from at a chicken farm. The investigative team's top priority is to recover human remains that have been rotting in midsummer heat of 90 degrees (32 degrees Celsius) since the plane went down on July 17. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

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Ukraine: Body parts retrieved at jet crash site

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August 1, 2014 7:28 pm

A pro-Russian fighter gestures near a body of a community service worker who was killed during the shelling outside a residential apartment house in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine Tuesday, July 29, 2014. Local residents said it was a shelling from direction of Ukrainian army's positions. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

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Shelling adds to mounting civilian toll in Ukraine

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July 29, 2014 3:38 pm

Igor Chernetsov whose wife was killed in collapsed building during airstrike gestures near his house in Snizhne, 100 kms east from the city of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine Tuesday, July 15, 2014. An airstrike demolished an apartment block in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday, killing at least nine civilians, rescue workers said. The attack adds to the steadily growing number of civilians killed over four months in a dogged pro-Russian insurgency. Government officials denied the Tuesday strike was carried out by Ukraine's air force. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

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Airstrike in eastern Ukraine kills 11 civilians

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July 15, 2014 8:10 pm