(2 Jun 2014) Pro-Russian separatists continued to attack a border guard base in eastern Ukraine on Monday.
The rebels fired rocket-propelled grenades from the roof of a nearby residential building, prompting the deployment of air support by government forces.
At least five rebels were killed when the guards returned fire, a spokesman for the border guard service said.
A blast at an administrative building in Luhansk held by separatists claimed more lives.
A health official for the Luhansk region told Interfax news agency that at least seven people had been confirmed dead in the incident, which rebels described as a government airstrike.
Authorities denied carrying out a strike and said the blast was caused by misdirected rebel fire from a portable surface-to-air missile launcher.
Pro-Russian separatists, who have seized government and police buildings across eastern Ukraine, have waged increasingly aggressive attacks on government-held checkpoints and garrisons in an attempt to seize weapons and ammunition from Ukrainian forces.
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