\\\'Dozens\\\' killed in rebel strike on refugee convoy: Ukraine

Ukraine accused pro-Russian rebels of killing dozens of civilians fleeing the war-torn east on Monday, as crisis talks between Kiev and Moscow failed to halt months of bloodshed. Kiev's military said insurgents using Russia-supplied weapons shelled adults and children in a convoy with white flags on a road from the restive city of Lugansk, leading to ‘dozens of dead’. The allegations came after marathon talks in Berlin brought no consensus on how to end the conflict, and President Petro Poroshenko said Kiev was pressing on with its drive to oust rebels, having ‘laid siege to cities most controlled’ by them. Ukraine's security spokesman Andriy Lysenko said insurgents deliberately targeted the civilians, whose transport was clearly marked, adding that the exact number of casualties was still unclear. ‘The convoy had white flags and was marked as civilian,’ he said at a briefing. Kiev believes it was shelled from mortar guns and Grad rocket systems supplied from Russia and was ‘completely destroyed’. ‘We ask that any videos from the scene are not released to the public, because they are atrocious,’ he added, according to AFP.