More than 5,000 have been killed and a million forced out of their homes by the nine-month conflict raging over the Russian-speaking separatist east of Ukraine, an international monitoring group said on Thursday.
Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) spokesman Michael Bociurkiw told Ukrainian radio that more that 10,000 people have also been wounded by rocket and mortar strikes raining down daily on the industrial region's residential districts.