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This Article is From Sep 05, 2014

Fresh Shelling Heard Near East Ukraine Port of Mariupol: Reuters Witness

Fresh Shelling Heard Near East Ukraine Port of Mariupol: Reuters Witness
Unmarked Military vehicles burning in country roads in the village of Berezove, eastern Ukraine (Associated Press Photo)
Mariupol, Ukriane: Reuters witnesses heard renewed artillery shelling to the east of the port of Mariupol in eastern Ukraine on Friday, hours before Ukrainian, Russian and European envoys are expected to back a peace plan and a ceasefire.

"Our artillery has come and is being deployed against the (pro-Russian) rebels," the mayor of Mariupol, Yuri Khotlubey, told Ukraine's 112 TV channel.

A commander of a Ukrainian volunteer militia based in Mariupol told Reuters: "We were under fire all night but we are still keeping the rebels at bay. They are facing us with tanks and artillery."
© Thomson Reuters 2014

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