Ukraine crisis: Gunfire and explosions outside rebel-held town of Slavyansk

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8. Kiev’s ‘punitive op’ in E. Ukraine irreparably severs Geneva accord – Kremlin

By unleashing a ‘punitive operation’ in eastern Ukraine, Kiev has destroyed the last vestige of hope for implementing the Geneva agreement on de-escalating the Ukrainian crisis, Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

"While Russia is making efforts to de-escalate and resolve the conflict, the Kiev regime has chosen military aviation strikes on peaceful residential areas and started a punitive operation, literally destroying the last hope for the viability of the Geneva accords,” Dmitry Peskov said.

Peskov said the Russian president was closely following the events in eastern Ukraine. He gave a reminder that Putin had earlier described the possibility of any such operation as a “criminal action.”

“Unfortunately, the latest developments prove the assessment was right,” Peskov said.

http://rt.com/news/156352-kremlin-ukraine-operation-punitive/