Debris at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 near Shakhtarsk. Photograph: Xinhua /Lando...

1. Fighting near site of downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17
leaves 14 dead | World news
Debris at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 near Shakhtarsk. Photograph: Xinhua
/Landov/Barcroft Media
Fourteen people have been killed, including at least 10 Ukrainian soldiers, in fighting overnight
close to the crash site of downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, a Ukrainian military spokesman has
said.
"In total it is known that 14 people died but the bodies of four of them have not been identified and
could be Ukrainian soldiers or terrorists," Oleksiy Dmytrashkivsky said on Friday.

2. He added that "so far we are talking about 10 Ukrainian servicemen dead" in the clash, in the town
of Shakhtarsk 15 miles from the MH17 site.
Earlier the Ukrainian military had said its troops were ambushed by insurgent fighters.
The deaths shattered a brief lull across the war-torn region as international experts headed to the
wreckage of the downed plane to try to begin a stalled investigation into the attack on the passenger
jet.
The Ukrainian military said it was relaunching a broader offensive against separatist fighters
following a day-long ceasefire but insisted troops would not carry out operations in the immediate
vicinity of the crash site.
The military said on Friday it had made fresh gains by taking the village of Novyi Svit, 15 miles
south-east of the rebel stronghold of Donetsk, and was waging operations to secure the volatile
border with Russia.
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