DONETSK: The mayor of the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk told residents to stay home on Monday after fierce fighting between the military and separatist rebels that he said had caused casualties among civilians.
"Keep an eye on your children and try not to leave your homes unless it is an emergency," Oleksandr Lukyanchenko said in a statement on the mayoral website, advising residents to avoid the airport and the railway station.
Gun battles were reportedly continuing after fighter jets and helicopters gunships hit the airport's main terminal after it was seized by scores of armed insurgents in a dramatic escalation of the conflict in the east.
"There are civilian casualties," the mayor said without elaborating. AFP journalists saw the body of a woman lying not far from the Donetsk railway station but it was not clear how she had died.
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