Around 1,300 killed in Ukraine since ceasefire - U.N.

A Pro-Russian rebel and a local citizen stand in front of a house, which according to locals was destroyed by shelling last week, in the town of Gorlovka northeast of Donetsk December 14, 2014. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

KIEV (Reuters) - Around 1,300 people have been killed in Ukraine's separatist conflict since a September ceasefire, according to a U.N. report that said many living in the country's rebel-held east were struggling to survive.

As of Dec. 12, 4,707 combatants and civilians had been killed since pro-Russian rebels seized eastern regions near the border with Russia in April.