An average of 13 people have been killed daily in eastern Ukraine since a 5 September ceasefire came into place, the UN human rights commissioner says.<\/p>\n
In the eight weeks since the shaky truce came into force, the UN says 957 people have been killed, amid continuing violations on both sides.<\/p>\n
The commissioner’s report describes a total breakdown of law and order in rebel-held Donetsk and Luhansk.<\/p>\n
It also highlights credible allegations of abuses by government forces.<\/p>\n
Conflict broke out in eastern Ukraine last April, when the government in Kiev launched an operation to recapture areas seized by pro-Russian rebels.<\/p>\n
The separatists took over public buildings, after Russia responded to similar moves by rebels in Crimea by annexing the peninsula.<\/p>\n
As part of the truce signed in the Belarusian capital, Minsk, monitors from the European security body, OSCE, were to observe the eastern areas and the borders with Russia.<\/p>\n
The monitors themselves complained they had come under fire on Wednesday, from uniformed soldiers operating near a government-held area.<\/p>\n
Two shots were fired at the OSCE convoy near Mariinka, 15km (9 miles) west of Donetsk, from a distance of 80m, the OSCE said, but no-one was hurt.<\/p>\n
An OSCE spokeswoman refused to speculate on whether Ukrainian government soldiers had been to blame.<\/p>\n
The UN team in Ukraine said on Thursday that 4,317 people had been killed since the conflict erupted in April.<\/p>\n
There has also been a substantial rise in the number of internally displaced people in Ukraine in the past two months, up from 275,489 to 466,829.<\/p>\n
The human rights situation is directly affected, the report says, by the large amount of weapons and the foreign fighters “that include servicemen from the Russian Federation”.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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