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Pro-Russian rebel leader: 'We're at war'

Clashes continue between Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian forces in the eastern city of Donetsk despite a ceasefire being agreed four weeks ago, with the rebels and the government blaming each other for the shelling. Newshour has spoken to Andrei Purgin, a pro-Russian rebel leader and deputy prime minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk Peoples Republic about the breakdown in the ceasefire

(PHOTO: Andrei Purgin, pro-Russian rebel leader and deputy prime minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk Peoples Republic)

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