Heavy fighting threatens Ukraine ceasefire Gunfire and heavy shelling rocked a key frontline city in eastern Ukraine overnight, raising fears Sunday that a tenuous truce between government and rebel forces had already collapsed. Artillery fire was also heard Sunday near the airport of the main rebel-held city of Donetsk. Pro-Russian fighters had bombarded a government-held checkpoint on the eastern edge of the strategic port of Mariupol late Saturday, triggering a fire fight that sent local residents into panic. Im frightened. I want peace but I think this ceasefire is finished, this is the third night we havent been able to sleep. The violence erupted just hours after a phone call between Ukraines President Petro Poroshenko and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, who agreed that the ceasefire was generally being observed.
Posted on: Sun, 07 Sep 2014 10:00:34 +0000
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