More than 6,000 people have died in eastern Ukraine since the start of the conflict almost a year ago, AP quoted U.N. human rights office as saying. U.N. rights chief Zeid Raad al-Hussein said in a statement Monday that hundreds of Ukranian civilians and military personnel were killed in recent weeks in fierce fighing with pro-Russian separatists particularly near Donetsk airport and in the Debaltseve area.