From our newsroom on this breaking story:
Reports from eastern Ukraine say at least three people have been killed in shelling that damaged a hospital.
French news agency AFP reported on February 4 that a body lay in front of the hospital in a western suburb of the rebel-held city of Donetsk, and two more dead civilians could be seen lying outside a nearby residential building.
Pro-Russian separatists in Donetsk said more than 15 people were killed as the hospital in Tekstylshchyk neighborhood came under artillery fire.
Meanwhile, fighting between government forces and rebels for the control of the town of Debaltseve continued despite the OSCE's call for a cease-fire to allow for the evacuation of civilians.
The Ukrainian military said rebels used "all kinds of weapons" in nine attacks on its positions near Debaltseve overnight, but failed to dislodge government forces.
Separately, military spokesman Vyacheslav Seleznyov said two Ukrainian soldiers were killed in the previous 24 hours across eastern Ukraine, where the conflict has killed more than 5,350 people since April. (AFP, Interfax)
And another slant on the debate (over the debate) over arming Ukraine:
Today's situation map from Kyiv:
