Shakhtar need victory for the nation

Kiev - Shakhtar Donetsk are hoping a surprise Champions League victory over 2013 winners Bayern Munich on Tuesday can bring some brief cheer to their troubled nation.

Ukraine's military said on Monday that Russian-backed separatists had shelled a district in the eastern city of Donetsk despite the ceasefire negotiated by the leaders of France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine in Belarus on Thursday.

The ceasefire had forseen the creation of a neutral 'buffer zone' and withdrawal of heavy weapons responsible for many of the 5 000 deaths in a conflict that has caused the worst crisis in Russia-West relations since the Cold War a generation ago.