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Donetsk, Ukraine (CNN) — The battle for control of the eastern Ukrainian town of Slovyansk has intensified in the past 24 hours, with civilians caught in heavy crossfire between government forces and pro-Russian separatists. Each side blames the other for mortar and rocket fire that has struck apartment buildings and homes in the town, which is now also suffering acute power and water shortages.

Social media video from Slovyansk uploaded Sunday and apparently filmed in the past two days shows extensive damage to an apartment block in the center of the town, which appears to have taken a direct hit to the third floor.

Another building was engulfed by fire. Other videos showed people hurrying to basements, with the sound of artillery and rocket fire in the distance — and at times much closer. The charred ruins of cars littered the streets, and windows in a number of buildings had been blown out.

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/06/08/world/europe/slavyansk-ukraine-burns/

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Citizens of Eastern Ukraine continue to flee the area under shelling bombarment from Kiev Gov.......Civilians are leaving Kramatorsk, a city in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, after heavy shelling last night, ........The shelling started at midnight on Monday and lasted until 04:00 (01:00 GMT) in the morning.........

.... "workshops of the Energomashspetstal plant were damaged......shelling so strong things in houses and apartments were falling from shelves,” ...... "Even those who used to stay in the city during previous armed clashes decided to flee the fighting today. People take their families and go where they can,”....Comments made from those fleeing the area.

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Ukraine army soldiers telling how the Kiev Gov. is forcing them to fight or be shot in the legs if they refuse......additionally some have had their children threatened if they don't fight. (The conversation with the Ukrainian Army contractors who do not want to fight civilians was attended by the representatives of the military prosecutor's office....)

........"Three armed men came and began to threaten our children. They said if our children refuse to join the military operations of the Ukrainian Army, they will be shot in legs. Then these men told that parents will be also shot," said other relatives.

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Kiev Gov. blocks water to Crimea/Russia... Yet complains about SouthStream Pipeline by-passing Ukraine. Kiev Gov is basically lacking the funds it needs, even with the IMF loans and US funding...it cannot support itself....it needs to stop the game it's trying to play..it has an empty hand now.

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Radical, corrupt, and brutal murderer ukrainian oligarch 'Kolomoyskyi' greets US Nuland in Odessa yesturday...I believe the US will use his personal army to stop Odessa from pursuing their reforendum to join Russia...this guy is one nasty individual! Yet the US continues to say it's not involved with the fighting element in Ukraine..when it in fact is very much involved...hand in glove with the Oligarchs army thugs.