More than 6,000 people have been killed since eastern Ukraine's separatist insurgency erupted last April, the UN says. The Geneva-based body warned the situation had "dramatically deteriorated" in recent months.
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Deutsche Welle: UN says more than 6,000 killed in Ukraine war
Boys play with an unloaded submachine gun which was given to them by Ukrainian servicemen in the village of Chermalyk, some 40 km north-east of the eastern Ukrainian port of Mariupol, in the region of Donetsk on February 26, 2015.
