Reuters video from the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, where dozens were killed or injured today when missiles hit a residential area and the military headquarters. The victims included both civilians and soldiers. Damage from the missiles could be seen at a local school and apartment blocks. (Caution: GRAPHIC CONTENT)
Kyiv's ambassador to the United Nations:
Contact Group On Ukraine Assembles In Minsk
Representatives of Ukraine, Russia, the OSCE, and separatist-held regions of eastern Ukraine have arrived in Minsk for a meeting of the so-called Contact Group.
Russian Ambassador to Ukraine Mikhail Zurabov, former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma, OSCE special representative Heidi Tagliavini, and the authorized representatives from the two separatist regions -- Denis Pushilin from Donetsk and Vladislav Deinego from Luhansk, were all in the Belarusian capital for the February 10 meeting.
The Contact Group is the mechanism for talks between representatives of Ukraine, the pro-Russian rebels, Russia, and the OSCE, which produced a September 5 agreement on a cease-fire that failed to end the violence in east Ukraine.
The Contact Group representatives were meeting on the eve of a proposed summit of the leaders of France, Germany, Russia, and Ukraine, which is tentatively planned in Minsk on February 11.
Based on reporting by Interfax and Reuters
That's really it, in a nutshell.
Our news desk also is reporting at least eight dead and more than 60 wounded in Kramatorsk shelling.