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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

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Latest daily map from Ukrainian authorities.

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From our newsroom, via Russian agencies:

Ukrainian government officials have denied Russian media reports that pro-Moscow separatists have fully captured the Donetsk airport.

Military spokesman Andriy Lysenko said in Kyiv on January 17 that Ukrainian forces "are continuing to keep this strategic site under their control." Lysenko added that separatist militias have attempted repeated attacks and have "sustained heavy losses."

Earlier the same day, Russian media cited an unnamed separatist spokesperson as saying the last 20 or so Ukrainian troops on the territory of the airport had been driven out during the night.

The airport has been the scene of near-constant fighting between the two sides, despite a formal cease-fire in the conflict that has been in place since September.

The UN Security Council announced on January 16 that it will meet next week to discuss the crisis in Ukraine. It will be the council's 27th meeting about the crisis, in which more than 4,700 people have been killed.

Based on reporting by Interfax and ITAR-TASS

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Oliver Carroll appears to be providing the very latest news on the bleak situation facing Ukrainian troops at Donetsk airport, where pro-Russian outlets already claim that enemies of Kyiv control the whole facility.

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