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According to Bahrain, reportedly in the same blast, five of its troops had lost their lives on Friday.

Poroshenko will meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande in Berlin on Monday in a bid to end a new wave of violence in east Ukraine between Russian-backed rebels and Ukraine’s armed forces.

But Monday’s deaths came from strikes across the warzone.

It is thought to be the highest single day death toll in more than a month.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the gravity of the situation in eastern Ukraine is escalating, as armed aggressions between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian militias have intensified in the recent days.

He also drew attention to Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s visit to Russian-occupied Crimea on Monday, ostensibly, to promote tourism, as another provocation.

On the occasions referred to by Mr Lavrov, Kiev says Russian troops entered Ukraine to crush government forces at Ilovaisk and Debaltseve respectively; some 9,000 Russian troops started war games yesterday, including units stationed near Ukraine’s border.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Monday accused the Ukrainian government in Kiev of derailing the recent talks on withdrawal.

The global group of specialists conducting a criminal investigation into the crash of the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine in July 2014 is examining “several parts, possibly originating from a Buk surface-air-missile system”, the Dutch Safety Board...

They say the parts, possibly from a Buk surface-to-air system, are “of particular interest” and could help determine who was involved in the crash.

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Wednesday made an “urgent” appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin not to veto a UN Security Council resolution to try those who shot down flight MH17 over Ukraine.

The defense has repeatedly insisted that the case must be heard in Moscow, he said.

The Ukrainian State Border Service said that Ukrainian border guards did not open fire at Russian citizens from the Ukrainian territory near the Krasna Talivka border checkpoint, calling this incident a provocative act.

Russian prosecutors say Savchenko was involved the killing in her capacity as a volunteer in a Ukrainian battalion. They allege she acted as an aerial spotter to help Ukrainian ground forces target the journalists.

But Russian President Vladimir Putin said that efforts to create the United Nations tribunal were premature and counterproductive, since an investigation into what happened, led by the Dutch transportation safety board and due to report in October, is still ongoing.