Fighting intensifies in eastern Ukraine

Battles are raging between government forces and Russian-backed rebels for control of a strategic transport hub in eastern Ukraine as the death toll continues to climb following the collapse of ceasefire talks

Kiev
RUSSIA
Detail area
UKRAINE
CrimeaA nnexed by Russia

50km
30 miles

SEA OF AZOV
DONETSK REGION
RUSSIA
RUSSIA
UKRAINE
LUHANSK REGION

Schastia
Lysychansk
Starobilsk
Stanytsia
Luhanska
Izvaryne
Luhansk
Artemivsk
Popasna
Horlivka
Ilovaisk
Shakhtarsk
Krasny Luch
Donetsk
Volnovakha
Mariupol
Novoazovsk
Krasnoarmiisk

Jan 30, Vuhlehirsk Rebels capture village, threatening only supply routeinto Debaltseve 

Feb 2, Debaltseve Most intense fighting at rail hub straddling highway between main rebel cities of Donetsk and Luhansk. Town almost entirely encircled by rebels, hundreds of civilians being evacuated

Area held by pro-Russian rebels at start of January 2015
Areas captured by pro-Russian rebels since start of January

Sources: National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine, wire agencies