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The city has often felt insulated from the eight-year conflict and 14,000 death toll in Donbas
Right Sector
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Right Sector group says it sought to crush mafia smuggling goods into the EU
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Masked militants now control several towns and cities, writes Daniel McLaughlin in Donetsk
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Russia promised in an agreement in Geneva last week to ease tensions in Ukraine
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Killings will inflame an already extremely tense situation writes Daniel McLaughlin in Donetsk
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Militant leader says pro-Russian groups not bound by deal between Urkaine and Russia
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Oleh Tsarev reported seized members of a far-right group
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Amid exchange of accusations, Russia again hikes gas price for Ukraine
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Russian-backed Moldovan separatists claim to have neutralised Ukrainian spy drone
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Right Sector leader rejects claims of fascism and Russophobia
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