February 5 – Donetsk, Ukraine: Local residents get some food distributed to them. Fighting slowed around a dangerous Ukrainian following a week-long surge in violence. US President Donald Trump has pledged to help bring peace to the European Union’s backyard. The Ukrainian military said in the late afternoon that no soldiers had been killed in the past 24 hours for the first time since fighting soared last week.

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