pro-Russian separatists fired a second time Mariupol – Radio Information Agency reported. The attack was directed at Azov battalion positions located in the eastern part of the city. Altogether, Mariupol killed at least 16 people today, and more than 80 were injured.
According to reports the Ukrainian army on Saturday morning pro-Russian separatists deliberately fired district, inhabited only by civilians. Authorities reported that the place is going to the OSCE mission.
The pictures provided by local portals can see fire and black smoke rising over the densely populated district of the city. Resident quoted by AFP said that cell phones did not work.
A few days ago a spokesman for the National Security Council and Defense of Ukraine Andriy Lysenko said that the separatists’ greatly revived the “fire in the region of Mariupol.
The city authorities on Saturday, however, reassured that in the surrounding area “failed to identify any military activity”, and appealed to the people to remain calm.
Mariupol is a strategic port, lying on the only road between Russia and the land it occupied the Crimea, approx. 60 km west of the Russian border and approx. 40 km Novoazovsk occupied by separatists.
The Ukrainians are afraid that if Russia openly attacked their country, it is a major launches an offensive in the region.
Ukraine: Another fire Mariupol – Interia
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