顿涅茨克当地官员说，六人在双方的炮击中丧生。一位官员对路透社说，另有三人在卢甘斯克被打死。与此同时，又有多具马航17号航班遇难者遗体，星期天抵达哈尔基夫并准备运往荷兰。
星期六国际调查人员在马航班机残骸中又找到了多具遗体。
尽管附近仍有战斗，70名荷兰人和澳大利亚人组成的调查小组，搜寻了方圆20公里的坠毁现场。部分调查人员则因附近的战事而不得不推迟搜索工作。
那架马来西亚飞机被击落，298名乘客和机组人员丧生两个多星期后，调查人员和欧安组织官员目前的工作重点是找回依然失踪的数十具遗体。
Deadly clashes between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists continued Sunday as investigators searched the site of a plane crash for a third day.
Local officials in Donetsk say six people were killed there in shelling between the two sides. An official tells Reuters news agency three other people were killed in Luhansk.
A Reuters reporter in central Donetsk said the shelling echoed through the night and witnesses said several buildings caught fire in the outlying Petrovsky district, including a school. The smell of smoke stretched as far as the city center.
Many residents of Luhansk, which is close to the border with Russia, have no electricity and some are without water, the city administration's press office said.
