MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin blamed on Friday what he said were Kiev's "criminal orders" for a surge in fighting in east Ukraine in which civilians have been killed.
The United Nations' human rights office said on Friday 262 people had been killed in intensified fighting in east Ukraine in the last nine days, which it called the "most deadly period" since a ceasefire agreement last September.
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