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Pro-Russian rebels hold World War Two memorial at the destroyed monument to Soviet soldiers in Savur-Mohyla in eastern Ukraine. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
Three school buses carrying evacuees from the besieged city of Mariupol arrive in Zaporizhzhia in south-eastern Ukraine. Strategic port Mariupol has been a key target for Russia in its attack on Ukraine and devastating bombardments have left swathes of the city in ruins. Ukrainian forces are holed up along with civilians in a final stronghold in the vast Azovstal iron and steel works. IMAGES
Three school buses carrying evacuees from the besieged city of Mariupol arrive in Zaporizhzhia in south-eastern Ukraine. Strategic port Mariupol has been a key target for Russia in its attack on Ukraine and devastating bombardments have left swathes of the city in ruins. Ukrainian forces are holed up along with civilians in a final stronghold in the vast Azovstal iron and steel works. IMAGES
Ukrainian and Russian-backed rebels swap hundreds of prisoners in the war-torn East of the country, one of the largest such exchanges since the outbreak of an insurgency almost four years ago. IMAGES
A ceasefire is broadly holding in east Ukraine but separatists in the rebel stronghold of Donetsk are training in case hostilities with government troops resume. Mana Rabiee reports.
Russian-backed separatist rebels paraded Ukrainian prisoners of war in the eastern city of Donetsk, accusing them of staging a deadly shelling attack on a trolley bus.