Ukrainian forces shelled a mine located in the Horlivka town of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) while 20 workers where on shift, the DPR Ministry of Coal and Energy said in a press release on Wednesday

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the had never instructed the Armed Forces to avoid responding to attacks in the embattled Donbas region, saying the military would never initiate an attack there but would respond to any offensive

Kiev's representative in the Trilateral Contact Group on Donbas, Leonid Kuchma, is convening on Wednesday an urgent meeting of the group, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, confirming that Kuchma had asked to delegate his powers to another official

The United States has supplied Ukraine with $25 million worth of military and medical equipment to be used in the operation against self-proclaimed republics in the country's east, the US embassy said Friday