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A resident pushes on July 13, 2014 two bicycles past a burnt vehicle in the village of Semenovka, near the eastern Ukrainian city of Slavyansk in the Donetsk region. Escalating clashes between pro-Kremlin separatists and Ukrainian forces on July 13 killed 12 civilians and forced the new Western-backed leader to cancel a pivotal meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the World Cup in Brazil. Militias that the West and Kiev allege are being armed by the Kremlin used a Grad multiple-rocket system late on July 11 to mow down 19 Ukrainian soldiers and wound nearly 100 near the Russian border. AFP PHOTO / GENYA SAVILOV (Photo credit should read GENYA SAVILOV/AFP via Getty Images)