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A priest stands in front of a hospital destroyed after shelling between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists in the eastern city of Donetsk, Ukraine, on January 19.
A priest stands in front of a hospital destroyed after shelling between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists in the eastern city of Donetsk, Ukraine, on January 19.

Live Blog: Ukraine In Crisis (Archive)

Final Summary For January 20

-- A military spokesman says Ukrainian soldiers on January 20 came under attack from Russian regular forces in the north of the conflict zone in eastern Ukraine.

-- Germany's foreign minister says he and his counterparts from Ukraine, Russia, and France will meet on January 21 in Berlin in a bid to de-escalate the conflict in Ukraine.

-- The chief of Russian gas giant Gazprom says Ukraine's discount "winter price" for natural gas will end on April 1. Gazprom CEO Aleksei Miller said in a meeting with Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev that the price for Kyiv would be set in accordance with a long-standing contract, one Kyiv has long sought to change.

-- Russia says a European Union decision to keep sanctions against Russia in place shows the EU is not ready to change an "unfriendly course" toward Moscow. The EU's decision "only confirms the fact that the EU is still not ready to alter its unfriendly course or to give an objective assessment of the Kyiv authorities' actions," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

-- A Georgian man fighting on the Ukrainian side in the conflict in Ukraine has been killed in combat near the Donetsk airport, according to relatives. Media reports in Georgia quote members of Tamaz Sukhiashvili's family as saying he was killed in a battle near the bitterly contested airport on January 17.

-- The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has expressed deep concern over what it says is the "escalation" of violence between government forces and pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine over the past two weeks. In a statement, the ICRC said the fighting in and around the city of Donetsk was killing civilians and "preventing" its team from carrying out its humanitarian work.

-- An explosion near a courthouse in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv has wounded 14 people, four of them seriously.

-- Russia says Kyiv is trying to solve the crisis in eastern Ukraine through military force and that could lead to "irreversible consequences for Ukrainian statehood." Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin spoke to Interfax news agency as Kyiv and Moscow accused each other of ignoring appeals for a cease-fire to be respected.

*NOTE: Times are stated according to local time in Kyiv

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French President Francois Hollande traveled to Moscow today, reportedly the first Western leader to travel there since the annexation of Crimea. But first, it appears, he spoke with Ukraine's president.

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West, Russia must stop new "walls" from coming up, Hollande tells Putin. -- AFP

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Hollande said at the start of his meeting today with Putin that he hoped the meeting would help "rid ourselves of the walls that divide us." -- AP

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From Interfax:

A senior member of the parliament of the self-declared Donetsk People's Republic on Saturday suggested that the contact group on eastern Ukraine meet on December 12 rather than on December 9 as announced earlier.

"I would like us to hold our next round of consultations in Minsk on Friday December 12," Denis Pushilin, deputy chairman of the Supreme Council, told Interfax.

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From Interfax:

The self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic is planning to bring out legislation that would "practically completely" replace Ukrainian laws, the head of the republic's parliament said on Saturday.

"At the moment we're getting ready to enact about 40 new laws. They will address issues of security, economics. In other words, we'll be practically completely abandoning Ukrainian laws because they're practically inapplicable," Andrei Purgin told reporters.

He added that efforts would be made to bring out the legislation as soon as possible.

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