DONETSK - Ukrainian troops took control of a checkpoint on Aug. 5 on the western edge of the pro-Russian rebel-held city of Donetsk as the government makes further gradual advances to quash separatist forces in the east.
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A Ukrainian soldier stands guard on top a humvee with a Ukrainian flag behind him, on July 31, 2014 at a check-point in the village of Debaltseve, in the Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine.
