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A prisoner tramples smoldering grass in a high-security facility after shelling in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Monday, Aug. 11, 2014. Local authorities say more than 100 prisoners have fled from a high-security facility after it was hit by shelling in the rebel stronghold of Donetsk. City council spokesman Maxim Rovensky said Monday a jail riot was precipitated by a direct rocket hit that claimed the life of at least one inmate. The fugitives include people jailed for murder, robbery and rape. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Ukraine OKs Red Cross-led aid mission to east

YURAS KARMANAUPETER LEONARD · August 11, 2014 7:45 pm

FILE - In this Thursday, July 17, 2014 mobile phone photo provided by Andrei Kashtanov, smoke rises from the site where a Malaysia Airlines commercial plane went down in eastern Ukraine. All 298 people aboard the Boeing 777 traveling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur were killed. (AP Photo/Andrei Kashtanov)

What happened? The day Flight 17 was downed

YURAS KARMANAUPETER LEONARD · July 25, 2014 7:53 pm

People walk next to a refrigerated train loaded with the bodies of victims, in Torez, eastern Ukraine, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, Sunday, July 20, 2014. Armed rebels forced emergency workers to hand over all 196 bodies recovered from the Malaysia Airlines crash site and had them loaded Sunday onto refrigerated train cars bound for a rebel-held city, Ukrainian officials and monitors said.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Bodies from downed jet piled in boxcars in Ukraine

YURAS KARMANAUPETER LEONARD · July 20, 2014 11:36 pm

A Donetsk People's Republic fighter stands guard during the wedding ceremony of platoon commander Arsen Pavlov and Elena Kolenkina in the city of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine Friday July 11, 2014. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Eastern Ukrainians flee as army suffers losses

YURAS KARMANAUPETER LEONARD · July 11, 2014 6:08 pm

A man speaks phone near a broken window in his house after shelling in Luhansk, eastern Ukraine Tuesday, July 8, 2014. Local residents said it was a shelling from the Ukrainian army's side. The Ukrainian government will restart cease-fire negotiations with pro-Russian insurgents in the country's east only once the rebels lay down their weapons, the defense minister said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Ukraine takes aggressive stance toward separatists

YURAS KARMANAUPETER LEONARD · July 8, 2014 7:35 pm

Workers of the Ukrainian company Metinvest clear away debris in a government building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol on Friday. Local patrols by steelworkers have forced pro-Russia insurgents to retreat from the government buildings they had seized in a major city in eastern Ukraine, giving residents hope that a wave of anarchy was over.

Fight against Ukraine rebels threatens more unrest

YURAS KARMANAUPETER LEONARD · May 16, 2014 10:13 pm

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