A baby girl cries in her mother's arms as they stand in line to get aid at the humanitarian aid center in Avdiivka, eastern Ukraine, on Friday, Feb. 3, 2017. Strong shelling hit both government- and rebel-controlled areas of eastern Ukraine in a continued escalation of the country's fighting. Former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko had a momentary meeting with Trump on Thursday just before he spoke to the National Prayer Breakfast at the Washington Hilton. Since then, more than 9,000 people have been killed in fighting between Ukrainian government troops and Russia-backed separatist forces. Analysts in Washington say that both Putin and Ukrainian President Petro ­Poroshenko appear to be using the intensified fighting as a means of influencing, and perhaps testing, the Trump administration.

Source: Washington Post February 04, 2017 01:30 UTC