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Published October 06, 2014

Nina Anatolyevna gestures in front of her burned private house after shelling in the town of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine Sunday, Oct. 5, 2014. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)(The Associated Press)

A fragment of a multiple missile 'Uragan', lies near a damaged private house after shelling in the town of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine Sunday, Oct. 5, 2014. According to rebels it comes from Ukrainian army's position. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)(The Associated Press)

A man embraces his relatives after shelling in the town of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine Sunday, Oct. 5, 2014. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)(The Associated Press)

KIEV, Ukraine Ukraine's prime minister says two drones have been delivered to the country so international observers can monitor the shaky cease-fire between government forces and pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.

Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said Monday the drones will be given to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe after they are cleared by customs.

The Sept. 5 cease-fire has been routinely violated. The government-controlled airport in the biggest rebel-held city, Donetsk, is a key flashpoint and residential neighborhoods nearby are frequently hit by artillery crossfire.

Yatsenyuk says Russia is doing nothing to mitigate the hostilities. He accuses Moscow of stationing troops in Ukraine a claim Russia has denied.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov urged all to uphold the truce and warned against blaming all violations on rebels.

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Kiev (AFP) - Ukraine said on Friday it had struck a gas deliveries deal with Norway's energy giant Statoil aimed at helping it avert the consequences of a months-long cut in Russian supplies.

The announcement represented a continuing drive by Kiev's new pro-Western leaders to tie their economic future to Europe and sever a decades-old dependence on the Kremlin that many Ukrainians feel has shackled their political rights.

But it also threatens to infuriate Moscow and complicate Statoil's effort to become one of the first global majors to access the potentially enormous wealth of untapped Arctic energy fields.

It signed a broad Arctic agreement with Russia's oil powerhouse Rosneft -- now the target of EU and US sanctions that are meant to punish the Kremlin for its actions in Ukraine -- in 2012.

The Norwegian deliveries deal's sensitivity was underscored when both Ukraine's state energy holding Naftogaz and Statoil refused to disclose the volumes or price of gas in the contract.

"The agreement marks a significant breakthrough for Naftogaz," chief executive Andriy Kobolev said in a statement.

"We are committed to integrating Ukraine fully into the EU energy market and working with the European Commission and other key actors to do so."

Russia nearly doubled Ukraine's gas price a few weeks after the February ouster in Kiev of a Kremlin-backed president who had earlier rejected a historic EU trade and political association pact.

The Russian state gas giant Gazprom cut deliveries to its western neighbour in mid-June after Kiev refused to pay the higher rate and all European mediation efforts failed.

A new round of EU-mediated talks between Moscow and Kiev failed to resolve the dispute last week and another meeting is still under discussion.

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