02/02/2017 (Agence Europe) – Calling for an immediate cessation of fighting in eastern Ukraine, where there has been a "sharp increase in violence", the President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, said on Thursday 2 February that ceasefire violations in recent days had "demonstrated a new level of intensity and brutality" (see EUROPE 11715). At a press conference, he said that the humanitarian situation in the Avdiivka region north of Donetsk was becoming critical. This fighting...