DONETSK, Ukraine – New battles raged in Ukraine’s east on July 1 as President Petro Poroshenko announced the end of a shaky 10-day ceasefire and said a new “active phase” of the government’s “anti-terrorist operation” would restart to quash pro-Russian separatists.

“We will

attack and we will liberate our land,” Poroshenko said in a televised address

just after midnight on July 1. “The end of the ceasefire is our response to

terrorists, rebels, looters, all those who mock the civilians who paralyze the

economy of the region; who rip the payment of salaries, pensions, stipends; who

undermine the railroads, destroy water pipes, those who deprive a normal

peaceful life.”