LUGANSK: Pro-Russian gunmen struck a Ukrainian border guard camp in one of the biggest offensives of their insurgency, as US President Barack Obama was set to arrive for talks on the festering Ukraine crisis with eastern European leaders in Warsaw Tuesday.

The well-coordinated dawn raid involving rebel snipers perched on rooftops led to a day-long battle at the base on the southern edge of the separatists' stronghold city of Lugansk.

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