Multiple deaths have been reported amid fighting between national armed forces and separatists in eastern Ukraine, a day after Russia recognized the Donetsk and Luhansk regions as independent from Kiev. The Ukrainian army reported that two soldiers were dead and 18 seriously injured. There was also a report of one civilian dead in Novoluhanske, in the Donetsk region, as well as reports of five more civilian injuries. Officials in the Donetsk region reported one fighter dead and three injured. There was also a report of a civilian dead in the region. In the other separatist region, Luhansk, the…