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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)