A Ukrainian fighter on the final checkpoint on the eastern outskirts of Mariupol as clashes rage nearby.
Three Ukrainian border guards being held at Novoazovsk border crossing between Ukraine and Russia which was seized by pro-Russian forces last week. Hundreds of prisoners have been taken by both sides since the conflict began.
A pro-Kiev National Guard fighter checks his ammunition on the grass next to a tank. Less than six miles away shells are landing in the fields near the eastern outskirts of Mariupol even as peace talks are underway in Minsk.
This Ukrainian fighter has just undergone surgery for a bullet injury in his shoulder and shrapnel wound on his leg. He was injured yesterday in clashes near Mariupol.
Sergy Taruta, the Governor of Donetsk, visits Igor a fighter in the Dnipro 1 Battalion who broke his back in the battle for Iloviask in Mariupol hospital.
Locals look at smoke on the horizon as grad fire rumbles in the distance, not all of them support the government forces who currently hold Mariupol, a port city of nearly half a million people.