LATEST: Aleksandr Zakharchenko, the leader of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine's Donetsk region, has announced plans to mobilize 100,000 people for the conflict with government forces. He said mobilization will begin in 11 days. (AFP, Interfax)
Events were held in Ukraine on February 1 to honor the victims of a rocket attack which killed 30 civilians in the southern port of Mariupol, held by government forces, on January 24. In Kyiv, crosses with the names of the victims were placed outside the Russian embassy. In the evening, in Mariupol itself, candles were lit on the central Theater Square. The United Nations has said rockets, fired from separatist-held territory, deliberately targeted civilians in an attack violating international humanitarian law. (RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service)
