MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday it was essential that both Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists fully observed a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine clinched nearly a month ago.
The ceasefire, signed by the separatists and Kiev's representatives in Minsk on Sept. 5, has increasingly frayed in recent days, leading to the deaths of civilians, soldiers and a Red Cross aid worker in the rebel stronghold of Donetsk.
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