Developments in Ukraine - Sept. 1, 2014
![First-graders attend a festive ceremony to mark the start of another school year in Slovyansk, Ukraine, Sept. 1, 2014.](https://gdb.voanews.com/DF0D297E-7A5F-494F-A5F3-E3243B546031_cx0_cy3_cw0_w1024_q10_r1_s.jpg)
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First-graders attend a festive ceremony to mark the start of another school year in Slovyansk, Ukraine, Sept. 1, 2014.
![Schoolgirls talk during morning assembly in a school in the southern coastal town of Mariupol, Ukraine, Sept. 1, 2014.](https://gdb.voanews.com/B63EB101-29DC-4CB2-8174-D2C9DE036CDD_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Schoolgirls talk during morning assembly in a school in the southern coastal town of Mariupol, Ukraine, Sept. 1, 2014.
![A child looks out of a train window as people who have fled from fighting in the eastern regions of Ukraine arrive at a railway station in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, on their way to a temporary accommodation in local cities and settlements in Siberia, Sept. 1,](https://gdb.voanews.com/57DCE4B1-9EA4-45A1-9F90-10F0BDC59300_cx0_cy10_cw0_w1024_q10_r1_s.jpg)
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A child looks out of a train window as people who have fled from fighting in the eastern regions of Ukraine arrive at a railway station in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, on their way to a temporary accommodation in local cities and settlements in Siberia, Sept. 1,
![A Ukrainian military helicopter flies above a military base in the eastern Ukrainian town of Kramatorsk, Sept. 1, 2014.](https://gdb.voanews.com/3BDF13B5-5204-4A79-88E1-30A473645776_cx0_cy10_cw0_w1024_q10_r1_s.jpg)
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A Ukrainian military helicopter flies above a military base in the eastern Ukrainian town of Kramatorsk, Sept. 1, 2014.