Ukrainian prime minister rejects Russian warnings on Kyiv enacting EU agreement:
Here's an update from RFE/RL's news desk:
A top United Nations official has said the death toll in the Ukraine conflict has soared past 3,000.
The Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights Ivan Simonovic told the UN Human Rights Council today that the current registered death toll, as of September 21, is 3,543.
Simonovic said the actual number is likely to be "significantly higher."
Not counting the 298 victims of the Malaysian plane crash in july, the official toll stands at 3,245.
The previous death toll of the five months of fighting between government forces and pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine was 2,600.
(AFP, ITAR-TASS)
Renewed fighting between Ukraine troops and pro-Russian separatists broke out on the night of September 21 and the following day near the city of Debaltseve in Ukraine's Donetsk region. A military commander said there had been casualties in his unit. The violence came as Ukrainian government forces were preparing to withdraw artillery and armored vehicles from a proposed 30-kilometer buffer zone. (Video by Levko Stek, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service)
Retired navy officer Yury Mishin says he was on the verge of tears when he realised Crimea might be incorporated into Russia. “I remember how back in the service days I was thrilled every time I heard the Soviet anthem while lining up on the deck of my nuclear missile carrier for the morning check. It was the very same feeling”.