By Reuters
...Washington (click here) has begun openly talking of arming Ukraine for the first time. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry also flew to Kiev on Thursday, although he had no plans to go to Moscow. His likely cabinet colleague, defense secretary nominee Ashton Carter, told lawmakers on Wednesday that he favored arming Ukraine's forces.
Peace talks collapsed on Saturday in Belarus, EU leaders are expected to consider punishing new economic sanctions against Moscow next week, and Germany hosts world leaders at a security conference over the weekend at which Ukraine is expected to be the main subject.
"Together with Angela Merkel we have decided to take a new initiative," Hollande told a news conference. "We will make a new proposal to solve the conflict which will be based on Ukraine's territorial integrity."
He and Merkel would meet President Petro Poroshenko in Kiev on Thursday and Russia's Vladimir Putin in Moscow the following day....
The bodies of people killed during a shelling at a residential area lie
on a street of Donetsk's Tekstilshik district, on Feb. 4, 2015. February 5, 2015
Malay Mail Online
Fourteen civilians (click here) and five government soldiers have been killed in fighting in east Ukraine over the past 24 hours, government and rebel officials said today....
The Separatists are not taking responsibility for their own violence. To them there are always a good reason to kill fellow Ukrainians. The current Ukrainian government never wanted this and have made every effort to end the violence. It isn't Ukraine that is the problem. The Separatists have escalated the violence and continues to do so.
Pro-Russian
separatists said shelling killed eight residents and wounded 33 more
around their stronghold Donetsk. - See more at:
http://www.themalaymailonline.com/world/article/five-troops-19-civilians-killed-in-ukraine-in-24-hours-officials-say#sthash.avLAcISg.dpufiolence
