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Russian-backed separatist rebels paraded Ukrainian prisoners of war in the eastern city of Donetsk, accusing them of staging a deadly shelling attack on a trolley bus.
Rescuers work in the Solomyansky district of Kyiv after a barrage of Russian missile attacks killed four people, including one in Kyiv, and wounded 27 others in the capital, according to officials. The attacks came a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed to intensify strikes on Ukraine. IMAGES
Ukrainian and Russian-backed rebels swap hundreds of prisoners in the war-torn East of the country, one of the largest such exchanges since the outbreak of an insurgency almost four years ago. IMAGES
Pro-Russian rebels hold World War Two memorial at the destroyed monument to Soviet soldiers in Savur-Mohyla in eastern Ukraine. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
A ceasefire is broadly holding in east Ukraine but separatists in the rebel stronghold of Donetsk are training in case hostilities with government troops resume. Mana Rabiee reports.
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).