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. The intensity of the fighting picked up overnight, since Russian President Vladimir Putin’s announcement of the recognition of the independence of the separatist regions. Official…