Bullet wounds, shrapnel, loss of blood -- it's all in a day's work for medical volunteers in Avdiyivka, where a cease-fire between Ukrainian forces and Russia-backed separatists often exists in name only. (Levko Stek and Marian Kushnir, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service)
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The pro-Russian militants said that UN representative Yuriy Suprun was 'convicted of war crimes,' while a historian Ihor Kozlovskiy was a 'spy,' refusing to release both men, as reported by Ukraine's representative in the humanitarian subgroup of the Trilateral Contact Group, Ukrainian President's envoy on a peaceful settlement of the situation in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, Iryna Herashchenko, first deputy chairwoman of the Ukrainian parliament.