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Russian state news agency RIA says U.S., Russian foreign ministers to meet for talks May 12 in Sochi.
Here is today's map of the security situation in eastern Ukraine, according to the National Security and Defense Council (CLICK TO ENLARGE):
Kiev forces shell militia positions in east Ukraine almost 40 times - local defence ministry
MOSCOW (TASS) -- Ukrainian military action has violated
ceasefire arrangements in war-torn eastern territory almost 40 times over the last 24 hours, a Defence Ministry spokesman for the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic said on Monday.
"For 37 times the Ukrainian side has shelled the republic," the Donetsk News Agency quoted the spokesman. "Once again we have registered the enemy use artillery."