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KIEV (Reuters) - A passenger bus came under heavy fire in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday, killing at least 11 people, Ukrainian authorities said, and fighting intensified around the international airport in the city of Donetsk as separatists tried to oust government forces.

The latest violence flared after Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany scrapped plans for a summit in Kazakhstan this week because of the failure to implement a four-month-old ceasefire agreement.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko condemned the bus attack as an act that "chilled the heart" and said the forces of the separatist Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics were to blame.

"These deaths are on the conscience of the DNR and LNR gangs and on those who stand behind them," he said in a statement in which he promised to sign a decree on Wednesday to more troops for the front.

A senior official from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) called for maximum restraint from all sides in the Ukraine conflict, which has killed more than 4,700 people since last April.

"Over the past 24 hours the situation has significantly deteriorated, especially near the Donetsk airport," said Ertugrul Apakan, head of the OSCE special monitoring mission in Ukraine.

The war between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian rebels broke out soon after Russia annexed Crimea last year, creating the worst crisis in East-West relations since the Cold War. Western governments accuse Russia of backing the separatists, including by sending in troops, which it denies.

Photographs showed the bus peppered by holes, as were seats inside it. A long trail of blood marked the road beside it near the town of Volnovakha.

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Ukraine is meeting with wheat traders to discuss the pace of exports and has no intentions of following Russias lead in curbing grain shipments, Agriculture Minister Oleksiy Pavlenko said.

The eastern European nation wants to assess stockpiles and may review traders shipment schedules, said Pavlenko, who met with industry representatives today. The ministry intends to hold such talks every four weeks. The meeting was to include a discussion on maximum limits for exports, researcher UkrAGroConsult said in a report yesterday, after Russia last month introduced taxes on wheat exports to rein in food prices.

Maybe we will discuss a memorandum that will include traders plans for every month or for every quarter, Pavlenko said in an interview in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, yesterday. Maybe we will also write down volumes of intended exports so that the parties have a common understanding and to help planning.

So far, there is nothing to suggest that traders will sell so much grain that the domestic market is left short, he said. The country, the sixth-biggest wheat exporter, will seek a clear forecast for its rollover stockpiles. He estimated that milling wheat inventories will be between 2 million metric tons to 3.5 million tons by end of the marketing year on June 30.

Ukraines position is different from Russias, the minister stressed.

The situation is very simple, Pavlenko said, adding that market conditions are normal. Nobody is going to introduce any restrictions for the time being, he said.

The ministry and traders will meet again tomorrow to discuss grain stockpiles and exports, Serhiy Stoyanov, the director for Ukraines Agrarian Confederation, said by phone after todays meeting.

Ukraine may export about 37 million tons of grains in the marketing year that started July 1, Pavlenko said. Ukraines wheat stockpiles were at 6.3 million tons as of Jan. 1, he said, adding that the country will need 2.7 million tons of wheat through June for domestic consumption.

Ukraine plans to increase grain shipments to China to 5.5 million to 5.7 million tons this year and seek as much as $25 billion of investment in its agricultural industry, focusing on port logistics and irrigation systems, from the Asian nation.

The country wants to boost its grains harvest to 100 million tons a year within three years and needs to increase capacity of ports, railways and elevators, Pavlenko said.

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Russia plans to shift all its natural gas flows crossing Ukraine to a route via Turkey, a surprise move that the European Unions energy chief said would hurt its reputation as a supplier.

The decision makes no economic sense, Maros Sefcovic, the European Commissions vice president for energy union, told reporters today after talks with Russian government officials and the head of gas exporter, OAO Gazprom (GAZP), in Moscow.

Gazprom, the worlds biggest natural gas supplier, plans to send 63 billion cubic meters through a proposed link under the Black Sea to Turkey, fully replacing shipments via Ukraine, Chief Executive Officer Alexey Miller said during the discussions. About 40 percent of Russias gas exports to Europe and Turkey travel through Ukraines Soviet-era network.

Russia, which supplies about 30 percent of Europes gas, dropped a planned link through Bulgaria bypassing Ukraine amid EU opposition last year. Russias relations with the EU have reached a post-Cold War low over President Vladimir Putins support for separatists in Ukraine.

Sefcovic said he was very surprised by Millers comment, adding that relying on a Turkish route, without Ukraine, wont fit with the EUs gas system.

Gazprom plans to deliver the fuel to Turkeys border with Greece and its up to the EU to decide what to do with it further, according to Sefcovic.

We dont work like this, he said. The trading system and trading habits -- how we do it today -- are different.

Sefcovic said he arrived in the Russian capital to discuss supplies to south-eastern EU countries after Putin scrapped the proposed $45 billion South Stream pipeline. The region, even if Turkey is included, doesnt need the volumes Gazprom is planning for a new link, he said.

Ukraine makes sense as a transit country given its location in Europe and the very clear specified places of deliveries in Gazproms current long-term contracts with EU customers, Sefcovic said.

I believe we can find a better solution, Sefcovic said.

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