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A priest stands in front of a hospital destroyed after shelling between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists in the eastern city of Donetsk, Ukraine, on January 19.
A priest stands in front of a hospital destroyed after shelling between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists in the eastern city of Donetsk, Ukraine, on January 19.

Live Blog: Ukraine In Crisis (Archive)

Final Summary For January 20

-- A military spokesman says Ukrainian soldiers on January 20 came under attack from Russian regular forces in the north of the conflict zone in eastern Ukraine.

-- Germany's foreign minister says he and his counterparts from Ukraine, Russia, and France will meet on January 21 in Berlin in a bid to de-escalate the conflict in Ukraine.

-- The chief of Russian gas giant Gazprom says Ukraine's discount "winter price" for natural gas will end on April 1. Gazprom CEO Aleksei Miller said in a meeting with Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev that the price for Kyiv would be set in accordance with a long-standing contract, one Kyiv has long sought to change.

-- Russia says a European Union decision to keep sanctions against Russia in place shows the EU is not ready to change an "unfriendly course" toward Moscow. The EU's decision "only confirms the fact that the EU is still not ready to alter its unfriendly course or to give an objective assessment of the Kyiv authorities' actions," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

-- A Georgian man fighting on the Ukrainian side in the conflict in Ukraine has been killed in combat near the Donetsk airport, according to relatives. Media reports in Georgia quote members of Tamaz Sukhiashvili's family as saying he was killed in a battle near the bitterly contested airport on January 17.

-- The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has expressed deep concern over what it says is the "escalation" of violence between government forces and pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine over the past two weeks. In a statement, the ICRC said the fighting in and around the city of Donetsk was killing civilians and "preventing" its team from carrying out its humanitarian work.

-- An explosion near a courthouse in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv has wounded 14 people, four of them seriously.

-- Russia says Kyiv is trying to solve the crisis in eastern Ukraine through military force and that could lead to "irreversible consequences for Ukrainian statehood." Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin spoke to Interfax news agency as Kyiv and Moscow accused each other of ignoring appeals for a cease-fire to be respected.

*NOTE: Times are stated according to local time in Kyiv

10:50 14.1.2015

Reuters has shared video of the aftermath at the scene where Ukrainian authorities say 10 civilians were killed and 13 more wounded by a shell or missile that hit a bus in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday. The incident occurred at a Ukrainian military checkpoint near the town of Volnovakha, southwest of the separatist-held provincial capital of Donetsk. (WARNING: graphic images of dead civilians)

Civilians Killed As Shell Hits Bus In Eastern Ukraine
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10:41 14.1.2015

The Interpreter says the"alternative" theories from the "pro-Kremlin troll brigade" blaming pro-Kyiv forces for the bus attack on Tuesday have been debunked.

10:36 14.1.2015

The Ukrainian parliament began its session today with a moment of silence for the 12 people killed by what the Euromaidan PR Facebook describes as "killed by Russian terrorists near ‪#‎Volnovaha ‬yesterday."

Each side blames the other for the apparent rocket attack that slammed into a passenger bus on Tuesday.

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U.S., EU Condemn Rising Ukraine Violence

A bus damaged by shelling at a checkpoint of the Ukrainian forces in the village of Bugas, south of Donetsk, on January 13
A bus damaged by shelling at a checkpoint of the Ukrainian forces in the village of Bugas, south of Donetsk, on January 13

20:03 13.1.2015

That concludes our live-blogging of the Ukraine crisis for today. Check back in this space tomorrow for more continuing coverage.

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