A senior Ukrainian rebel leader has told the BBC a new law granting self-rule to parts of the east will not sway the demand for independence. Andrei Purgin said there were no plans to develop any political relationship - federal or otherwise - with Ukraine.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
BBC: Rebels defiant over new self-rule law
Armed pro-Russian militants patrol a road near a front line where shelling continues between pro-Russian forces and the Ukrainian army in the village of Olenivka some 30 kms south of Donetsk on the way to Mariupol, eastern Ukraine.
