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Voice of America: Ukraine demands rebels surrender as fighting rages in Donetsk

Published Aug. 10, 2014 at 6:48 pm

A woman holds a newborn baby as she stands inside a bomb shelter in a maternity hospital during shelling in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, on August 10, 2014. Artillery pounded the surrounded main rebel bastion of Donetsk in east Ukraine Sunday as the West warned Russia that any attempt to send \"humanitarian\" troops into the conflict-torn region would be deemed \"unacceptable.\" Shelling meanwhile continued throughout the night and into Sunday in Donetsk, a one-million strong city that rebels now say has been surrounded by Ukrainian forces.

Photo by AFP / DIMITAR DILKOFF

A Ukrainian military spokesman rejected a pro-Russian separatist call for a cease-fire, as fighting continues unabated in eastern Ukraine.

Ukrainian troops have surrounded Donetsk in a "tight ring" and the only thing for rebels left to do is surrender, said Andriy Lysenko, the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council spokesperson, on Aug. 10.