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Ukraine and Separatists Report ‘Intensifying’ Skirmishes Near Mariupol


Pro-Kiev and pro-Russian fighters in eastern Ukraine have reported “intensifying” skirmishes near Ukraine’s strategic port city of Mariupol, after several days of relative calm. The opposing groups however have been blaming each other for the violence.
The pro-government battalion stationed around Mariupol, Sector M, told local media yesterday that around 5am the positions held by Ukrainian forces in the village of Shyrokyne on Mariupol’s outskirts came under attack from rebel fire.
Dmitry Gorbunov, a spokesman for Sector M, told local news outlet 0629 that government forces have control over the situation and no Ukrainian servicemen had been killed.
But, he said, the …read more

Source: Newsweek

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