Ukraine shootout threatens to bury Geneva peace deal

Kiev ridicules claims by Russians that violence at Slavyansk checkpoint was caused by far-right Ukrainian nationalists

An international agreement to defuse the crisis in Ukraine was all but shredded on Sunday after a shootout in the separatist town of Slavyansk in which three people were allegedly killed.

Three days after the Geneva deal brought modest hopes for a resolution to the gravest east-west stand-off since the end of the cold war, the midnight incident at a checkpoint in which some reports said as many as five people were killed unleashed a torrent of accusations and counter-accusations that bodes ill for international peacemakers.

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