The cease-fire in eastern Ukraine has been in place just over a month, but on the front line outside Mariupol, between the Russian border and Crimea, the fighting has never stopped.
Signs of war are everywhere — Ukraine’s government fears this area could be the focus of the next rebel offensive. Tanks and armored personnel carriers face east, toward the village of Shyrokyne, a no-man’s land.
A Ukrainian commander, identified for this story only by his code name of Tank, said a soldier of the Ukrainian National Guard’s Donbas battalion was killed and another injured last week.
“There never was any cease-fire,” he …read more
Source: Voice of America
