Sunday night’s fighting in eastern Ukraine between government forces and rebels claimed the lives of several civilians, according to both sides.<br /><br /> In Kyiv the military has said two soldiers also died and seven others were wounded in a 24-hour period.<br /><br /> The defence ministry said on Monday that “Russian-backed terrorists” had violated the Minsk peace agreements 148 times on Sunday.<br /><br /> The clashes happened at Sartana near Mariupol and at Gorlivka, a rebel-held town near the main separatist stronghold of Donetsk.<br /><br /> On the government side, the local authority chief in Sartana said “massive shelling” had caused suffering to civilians.<br /><br /> “Two died immediately, six were injured. At the moment we’ve inspected 54 houses that were damaged,” said Stepan Maakhsma, head of Sartana town council.<br /><br /> A separatist website said government shelling in Gorlivka had killed three people.<br /><br /> Calling for the Minsk peace accord to be implemented, Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday that he suspe
