Russian-backed rebels pushed forward on Monday with a new offensive that has brought all-out war back to eastern Ukraine after a five-month ceasefire, bringing U.S. and European threats of tighter Western financial sanctions against Moscow.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
Reuters: Russian-backed insurgents advance in Ukraine, Moscow faces sanctions threats
Leader of the self-declared Donetsk People's Republic Alexander Zakharchenko speaks during an inauguration ceremony for the \"Monument to the Innocent Victims of an Undeclared War\" in the industrial Ukrainian city of Gorlivka, in the Donetsk Oblast on Jan. 26, 2015.
