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           Kyiv, Separatists Blame Each Other for Aid Worker's Death

   by VOA News

   Fighting between Ukrainian government troops and separatists continued
   in Donetsk Friday, after the two sides blamed each other for the
   shelling that killed a Red Cross worker a day earlier.

   Ukrainian military spokesman Andriy Lysenko said the battle for control
   of Donetsk airport, which the rebels are attempting to retake, was
   ongoing. He also accused the Russian military of deploying drones over
   the airport to carry out reconnaissance and direct fire.
   Ukraine's Foreign Ministry Thursday blamed the death of the Swiss Red
   Cross worker, identified as 38-year-old Laurent DuPasquier, on shelling
   by "terrorists" -- meaning the separatists. He was killed when a shell
   landed near the ICRC office in Donetsk.

   Andrei Purgin, deputy prime minister of the rebels' self-declared
   Donetsk People's Republic, charged Friday that DuPasquier was killed by
   a rocket fired by government forces.

   For its part, Moscow said the area of Donetsk where the Red Cross
   worker was killed "is under the control of the rebels and the shelling
   came from positions occupied by Ukrainian forces."
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