KIEV: Two people were killed in another round of intense shelling between Western-backed Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russian fighters in the separatist east, officials from both sides said on Friday.
Ukraine's military spokesman Andriy Lysenko said one soldier was killed and six wounded in the past 24 hours of fighting across the mostly Russian-speaking war zone.
Senior rebel commander Eduard Basurin accused Ukraine's army of killing a civilian in an overnight shelling attack on rebel-held Gorlivka, a town 25 km (15 miles) northeast of the insurgents' de facto capital Donetsk.
Ukraine's army on Thursday reported the heaviest exchanges of tank and rocket fire since the two sides signed a February truce deal that has been repeatedly broken since.
Kiev's pro-Western forces this week have been fighting the militias for control of a strategic highway linking the government-held southeastern port of Mariupol with Donetsk, which sits to the north.
Soldier, civilian killed in fierce Ukrainian clashes
Soldier, civilian killed in fierce Ukrainian clashes
