Here is today's map of the military situation in eastern Ukraine, according to the National Security and Defense Council:
RFE/RL's Georgian Service reports that another Georgian has been killed fighting in Ukraine:
TBILISI -- A Georgian man fighting on the Ukrainian side in the conflict in Ukraine has been killed in combat near the Donetsk airport, according to relatives.
Media reports in Georgia quote members of Tamaz Sukhiashvili's family as saying he was killed in a battle near the bitterly contested airport on January 17.
Sukhiashvili is the third Georgian national known to have been killed in the conflict between pro-Russian separatists and government forces.
Aleksandr Grigolashvili, who also fought on the Ukrainian side, was killed in the Luhansk region last month.
Shalva Bukhaidze, fighting on the side of pro-Russian separatists, was killed earlier in January.
Reports have said that there are many people from former Soviet republics fighting in the conflict, which has killed more than 4,700 people since April.
Amid intense fighting in Donetsk on January 19, a shell hit a hospital located in a separatist-held area. The cardiology department was destroyed, and other parts of the hospital were also damaged. A number of the patients were evacuated to another hospital in the city.
Donetsk Hospital Hit By Shelling
Moscow is denying sending troops into Ukraine:
Russia has denied new accusations by Kyiv that Moscow sent troops into eastern Ukraine.
Interfax quoted a Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov as saying on January 20 that Kyiv's claim was "absolute nonsense."
"Yesterday's statement from Kyiv about the alleged transfer of units of the Russian armed forces across the Russian-Ukrainian border does not stand up to criticism," the news agency quoted Konashenkov as saying.
The Ukrainian military said some 700 Russian troops had crossed into the country in the morning of January 19 to support pro-Russian separatists.
Fighting intensified in recent days as Ukrainian government troops and pro-Russian separatist fighters have been battling for the control of the Donetsk airport in eastern Ukraine.
The Ukrainian military claimed on January 19 that Ukrainian troops had retaken almost all parts of the ruined airport lost to separatists in recent weeks.
Separatists said the Ukrainian army's attempt to take the airport "have failed." (Interfax and Reuters)
Gazprom says Ukraine to pay full gas price:
The chief of Russian gas giant Gazprom says Ukraine's discount "winter price" for natural gas will end on April 1.
Gazprom CEO Aleksei Miller said in a meeting with Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on January 20 that the gas price on April 1 for Kyiv would be set in accordance with a long-standing contract.
He did not specify a price, but Gazprom previously charged Ukraine $485 per 1,000 cubic meters under a 2009 contract that Kyiv has long sought to change.
Russia lowered the price from that level late in 2013 as part of a reward to Kyiv for scrapping a landmark pact with the EU, then raised again after he outster of Viktor Yanukovych as president in February 2014.
On October 30, Russia and Ukraine agreeed to a an EU-brokered deal under which Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said Kyiv would pay Gazprom $378 per 1,000 cubic meters until the end of 2014 and $365 per 1,000 cubic meters in the first quarter of 2015.
Miller also said that Ukraine's debt to Russia for previous gas shipments is $2.44 billion. (Interfax and Bloomberg)