Up to 10 people have been killed after shells hit a hospital and other buildings in the rebel-controlled Ukrainian city of Donetsk.
The hospital in the Tekstilshchik district was damaged by shrapnel and the windows blown out.
The city's administration said it was still assessing the death toll but Ukraine's Prosecutor's Office said up to 10 people had been killed in and around the hospital.
A reporter said a body lay under a blanket in front of the building and two more dead civilians could be seen lying outside a nearby residential building.
"The firing hit in front of and behind the hospital. The children's playground and a school were hit too," local resident Denis Gladkov said.
Earlier in the day, the Ukrainian military said two of its soldiers had been killed and 18 wounded in fighting with pro-Russian forces in the previous 24 hours.
Over nine months of fighting, around 5,300 people have been killed, with a surge in the violence since the latest peace talks collapsed last weekend.
Meanwhile, Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko has said he is confident the US will donate weapons to help Ukraine in its fight.
US President Barack Obama has previously opposed the idea but a senior administration official said the White House is now reviewing that policy.
Mr Poroshenko will make his case to US Secretary of State John Kerry, who is to visit Kiev later this week.
He said: "I don't have a slightest doubt that the decision to supply Ukraine with weapons will be made by the United States as well as by other partners of ours, because we need to have the capabilities to defend ourselves."
Germany and France have said that the oppose the idea of arming Kiev.
French defence minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said: "We have no intention of delivering weapons at this stage to Ukraine.
"We think that we need to find a political solution to this crisis."
EU foreign affairs head Federica Mogherini has called for an immediate truce and artillery to be withdrawn from cities in east Ukraine to allow civilians to escape from the region.
She said: "The spiral of ever increasing violence in eastern Ukraine needs to stop."
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