In danger of being encircled, the separatists renewed their calls for Russia to send troops to their aid. To support their operations, they have been confiscating vehicles and food from residents and businesses.
A spokesman for the Ukrainian military operation, Alexei Dmitrashkovsky, told Associated Press that government soldiers were fighting Sunday to hold positions they had taken on the edge of Donetsk, but were meeting resistance.
In the part of the city closest to the fighting, an artillery shell hit a school overnight and set off a fire, but no one was reported hurt. The sound of gunfire and explosions was heard just to the west.
'Putin ignoring their own interests'
Earlier on Saturday, US President Barack Obama said the US is limited in what it can do to deter Russia's actions in Ukraine because Russia and President Vladimir Putin are ignoring their long-term interests.
Obama said the US has done everything possible to support Ukraine's government and to deter Russia. But he said short of going to war, there are going to be constraints about what the US can do.
He said the US is imposing sufficient costs, and Russia should want to take the needed steps to get economic sanctions lifted.
But he said, "people don't always act rationally." He says sometimes people don't act based on their own interests.
Obama says the US must keep working to de-escalate the conflict.
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