Four people were reported killed in a clash in restive eastern Ukraine , disrupting Easter ceasefire in the former Soviet republic on Sunday .
Three members of the pro - Russian and an attacker were killed in a shootout at a roadblock near the town Slavyansk , which is controlled by the separatist group , said local leaders Vyatcheslav Ponomarev .
The identity of the attackers is unknown . Kiev 's interim government has promised to stop military operation to oust rebels until the expiration of the Orthodox Easter holiday on Monday.
A member of the pro- Russian at that location told AFP that 20 attackers in a four- car fired automatic weapons into the post - senata rebels Sunday morning . But he could not confirm the casualties .
The violence came as the United States urged Russia to persuade the rebel pro - Kremlin implement international agreements that call for them surrender their weapons and leave the public buildings they had occupied .
Saturday night the leaders of the Orthodox in Kiev and Moscow engaged harsh debate concerning the Ukrainian crisis .
Archbishop Filaret condemned those loyal to Kiev 's pro-Western government that Russia is an " enemy " who attacked in Ukraine find failure because it is evil and contrary to God's will .
In Moscow , Archbishop of the Church of Russia , Kirill , say a prayer for Ukraine in which he asked God " put an end to the designs they want to destroy the holy Russia " .
Kirill said that although Ukraine separately in the " politics " , " spiritually and history " is one with Russia , and pray that it will be useful for the authorities is that they are " legitimately elected " .
Statement - a statement that will be broadcast on Russian television on Sunday . Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk denounced Russian President Vladimir Putin - the Kiev and Washington accuse of orchestrating the uprising in Ukraine - with the aim to revive the Soviet Union .
Yatsenyuk in televis NBC station also criticized those who reportedly distributed leaflets demanding pendafaran or expelled Jews from eastern Ukraine as illegal and should be prosecuted .
United States Saturday reported increase its military strength in the peringataa to Russia deploying tens of thousands of troops on the border of Ukraine .
Letters kebar The Washington Post said the U.S. ground forces to be sent a kemugkinan Poland and the Baltic states to expand NATO presence in the Eastern Europe .
Polish Defence Minister Tomasz Siemoniak , in a statement quoted by the media saying Poland , the NATO members will play an important role in the operation .
Washington warned Moscow that Ukraine beeada in a " rotating sunbu period " while the pro - Russian pemberotnak refused to obey the Geneva agreement reached Thursday by Russia , USA , Ukraine DAA EU to disarm .
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told the Russian Foreign Minister , Sergei Lavrov , the full and immediate implementation diepenuhi " necessary in the next few days .
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