On Tuesday 31 January, the spokesperson for the European External Action Service (EEAS) called for the fighting in eastern Ukraine to be stopped "immediately".
"The intense fighting around Avdiivka in the last few days, involving heavy shelling with proscribed weapons and leading to a considerable number of casualties, is a blatant violation of the ceasefire, as stipulated by the Minsk agreements", the EEAS spokesperson stated in a press release, adding that the fighting was putting...