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Ukraine's government and pro-Russian separatists have failed to begin pulling back heavy weapons from the front line.
The sides were to begin withdrawing tanks, artillery, and rockets from front line areas in Ukraine's east on February 17 as the second phase of a cease-fire agreement signed last week in the Belarus capital, Minsk.
The truce which came into effect on February 15 has been broadly observed.
But Ukraine’s military said the rebels launched 15 attacks overnight against its positions around the beleaguered town of Debaltseve.
Kyiv said five soldiers have been killed and 14 wounded in the past 24 hours, most of them near Debaltseve.
The separatists said the army breached the truce 17 times in Donetsk region in the past 24 hours.
They accused Ukrainian forces of shelling Donetsk airport.
Fighting was also reported near the southern port city of Mariupol.
In Berlin, a German government spokesman said the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, and Germany agreed on "concrete measures" to allow OSCE observers to monitor the shaky cease-fire.
Steffen Seibert said the measures were agreed during a phone call late on February 16.
Seibert said Chancellor Angela Merkel and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to “exercise his influence on the separatists to enforce the cease-fire."
In Washington, a State Department spokeswoman said the United States was "gravely concerned by the deteriorating situation in and around Debaltseve."
In a February 16 statement, Jen Psaki called on "Russia and the separatists it backs to halt all attacks immediately" and engage with the OSCE monitoring mission to implement the cease-fire.
Under the European-brokered cease-fire agreed in Minsk, the pull-back of heavy weapons was due to be completed within two weeks, creating a buffer zone that was intended to stretch up to 140 kilometers.
The cease-fire was negotiated by Ukraine, Russia, Germany, and France to put an end to the conflict that has claimed nearly 5,500 lives over the past 10 months.
Both sides said they would not begin pulling back heavy weapons from the front line because of the continued attacks.
And rebels said they had no intention of observing the truce at Debaltseve, where they have been advancing since last month and now have several thousand Ukrainian troops all but encircled.
Debaltseve is within a narrow strip of land in the region of Donestk that is still under nominal Ukrainian government control in the midst of territory controlled by separatists.
On February 16, the rebels said they would open a safe corridor for Ukrainian forces out of Debaltseve on condition that they surrender the territory and lay down their weapons.
The offer was rejected by the Ukrainian military, with spokesman Vladislav Seleznyov saying government troops would not leave because the town is located inside territory under Ukrainian control in accordance with the cease-fire deal.
Meanwhile, further EU sanctions against Russia have gone into effect.
The EU added two Russian deputy defense ministers and two lawmakers -- along with 15 separatists in Donetsk and Luhansk -- to its travel-ban and asset-freeze blacklist for "undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty, and independence of Ukraine."
Among the 19 people who now will be under a visa ban and have their assets in the EU frozen are Russian First Deputy Defense Minister Arkady Bakhin and Russian Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov, as well as the deputy chief of the Russian general staff of the armed forces, Andrei Kartapolov.
Two State Duma members -- including popular singer Iosif Kobzon -- and 15 separatists from the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk Peoples Republics are also blacklisted.
The Public Movement Novorossiya is among the entities listed together with eight separatist fighting units, including the Cossack National Guard.
The EU decided to add to its sanction list after the January 24 shelling of the southern Ukrainian city of Mariupol, which killed at least 29 people.
The list now includes 151 individuals and 37 entities in Ukraine and Russia.
Moscow swiftly reacted to the announcement on February 16, saying the EU had contradicted "common sense" by imposing new sanctions one day after the start of a cease-fire in the conflict between Kiev and Russian-backed rebels.
A Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman said Moscow will respond to the extended sanctions list "adequately."
LATEST. Reports said government forces and rebels are engaged in fierce fighting on the outskirts of the flashpoint town of Debaltseve and near its railway station.
The military said Ukrainian troops were holding their positions against the rebels' attack.
The new Bellingcat report is out. It's on the origin of artillery attacks on Ukrainian military positions in the east of the country in summer 2014.
"The pressure of sustained artillery attacks through early August led Ukrainian armed forces to lose control of hundreds of kilometers of border territory. Google Earth satellite images of eastern Ukraine from July, August, and September 2014 have enabled the Bellingcat investigation team to find evidence of these artillery attacks, determine their origin, and compare them with local sources.
"After reviewing and analyzing these satellite images as well as videos from social media, local media reports, and the shifting maps of the ongoing conflict, the Bellingcat investigation team has determined that there is compelling evidence that artillery attacks on Ukrainian territory and against Ukrainian armed forces originated from the territory of Russia."