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From Jim Sciutto and Max Foster, CNN
November 12, 2014 -- Updated 0139 GMT (0939 HKT)
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(CNN) -- Gunfire crackles and flames scar battlefields in eastern Ukraine -- signs, officials warn, of a crumbling ceasefire in the volatile region.
And there's new fear that the long simmering battle may be about to explode to a deadly new level.
Gen. Philip M. Breedlove, NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe, said he's concerned about the escalating violence and accused Moscow of violating the norms of Western civilization.
"The ceasefire is in name only at this point," he told reporters Tuesday. "The violence continues to increase day by day."
Ukraine's government and separatist leaders signed a ceasefire deal in September, raising hope that the monthslong conflict in eastern Ukraine was nearing an end.
But now, fighting between pro-Russian rebel forces and the Ukrainian military has returned to levels that preceded the ceasefire, a British security source who has detailed knowledge of the matter told CNN.
Russia has amassed some 8,000 troops along the Ukraine border, Pentagon officials and the British security source said.
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Ukraine violence flares as ceasefire collapses
From Jim Sciutto and Max Foster, CNN
updated 8:39 PM EST, Tue November 11, 2014
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
(CNN) -- Gunfire crackles and flames scar battlefields in eastern Ukraine -- signs, officials warn, of a crumbling ceasefire in the volatile region.
And there's new fear that the long simmering battle may be about to explode to a deadly new level.
Gen. Philip M. Breedlove, NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe, said he's concerned about the escalating violence and accused Moscow of violating the norms of Western civilization.
"The ceasefire is in name only at this point," he told reporters Tuesday. "The violence continues to increase day by day."
Ukraine's government and separatist leaders signed a ceasefire deal in September, raising hope that the monthslong conflict in eastern Ukraine was nearing an end.
But now, fighting between pro-Russian rebel forces and the Ukrainian military has returned to levels that preceded the ceasefire, a British security source who has detailed knowledge of the matter told CNN.
Russia has amassed some 8,000 troops along the Ukraine border, Pentagon officials and the British security source said.
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Ukraine violence flares
Sanctions
The United States and European Union have imposed economic sanctions on Moscow since Russia seized Ukraine's Crimea peninsula in March and began backing pro-Russian rebels who rose up in two eastern provinces.
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The past week has seen the truce deteriorate, after the rebels staged elections and inaugurated leaders, steps Kiev said violated a Sept. 5 peace agreement.
Western countries believe Russia aims to establish a "frozen conflict": a separatist enclave similar to breakaway regions its troops have protected in much smaller ex-Soviet republics Georgia and Moldova for two decades.
That would make it more difficult for Ukraine to achieve its goal of joining the EU and weigh on efforts to revive an economy shattered by a year of political turmoil and war.
Kiev's fear is that Russia will try to expand the territory controlled by the separatists with another military push like one that turned the war's tide in the rebels' favor in August.
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The immediate economic concern for Ukraine is the currency, as the sharp fall imperils its banks. The central bank abandoned its unofficial peg last week after spending $1.3 billion, around a tenth of its remaining reserves, to defend the hryvnia in the past month and a half.
"They're trying to show us that we have a floating exchange rate, but I prefer the term 'sinking' ... the market is in a phase that could be classified as panic-mode," a banker for a foreign bank's subsidiary in Ukraine told Reuters.
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Ukraine's currency plunges as fears grow