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Reuters: UN Security Council expresses ‘grave concern’ over Ukraine

Published Feb. 1, 2017 at 10:50 am

OSCE observers talk with a local resident woman (L) in Ukraine-controlled town of Avdiyivka, in Donetsk region on Jan. 30, 2017 as surge in clashes between Ukrainian forces and Russian-backed rebels killed at least six people.

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The UN Security Council expressed its “grave concern” on Jan. 31 over the “dangerous deterioration” in eastern Ukraine and called for a halt to the violence.

“The members of the Security Council expressed their full support of sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine,” the Security Council said in statement. “The members of the Security Council called for an immediate return to a ceasefire regime.”