Even with tensions again high between Moscow and Kyiv over Crimea, Ukraine has said there has not been any significant increase in fighting in the east of the country where there are regular clashes between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian army troops.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has instructed all military units near Crimea and in the eastern Donbass region to be at the highest level of combat readiness in the wake of Russia’s allegations.