The devastating crash of a Malaysian Airlines jet in eastern Ukraine focused international attention on the revolt by pro-Russian separatist forces. Western governments suspect the airliner was downed by a missile fired from a rebel-held area. BBC profiles some of the key figures involved on both sides of the conflict, which erupted in April when the separatists declared independence from the revolutionary, pro-Western government in Kyiv.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
BBC: Key players in eastern Ukraine unrest (UPDATE)
New prime minister of Ukraine's self-proclaimed \"Donetsk People's Republic\" Alexander Zakharchenko speaks as he gives a press conference in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, on August 7, 2014.
