An emergency aid team working for the charity GOAL has arrived on the ground in Ukraine to help combat the growing humanitarian disaster.
Over 6,000 lives have been lost since fighting broke out last spring and the Irish organisation says its priority is to help ordinary people caught up in the violence.
More than a million people have been forced from their homes and 3.2 million are considered extremely vulnerable.
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A ceasefire was negotiated through high level political discussions in Minsk last month but GOAL's senior manager, Alan Glasgow says it's a tenuous peace:
