Ukraine reported intensified shelling in its war-ravaged east as German said the terms of a month-old truce aren’t being met. The government reported one death among its forces the past day, saying pro-Russian insurgents fired artillery rounds at the military on 33 occasions. While the cease-fire “isn’t flawless,” the tendency in Ukraine is “unambiguously positive,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. The rebels yesterday described the truce as all but dead. “It’s obvious that the Minsk agreement isn’t implemented yet,” Merkel said today after talks with Polish Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz in Berlin. Drones could be used to monitor the truce, “but the condition for everything is that the cease-fire really holds. You can see how fragile the situation is right now.” While the truce, sealed Sept. 5, has reduced the bloodshed in Ukraine’s easternmost regions, it’s been marred by daily violence. There have been at least 331 deaths […]