Ukrainian truce shaken by shelling in eastern Ukraine
- 10 years ago
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STORY: Shelling overnight broke a fragile two-day peace in eastern Ukraine, with residents turning out to survey the damage on Sunday (September 7).
In the city on the Sea of Azov, to the south of Donetsk, government forces came under artillery fire.
One hotel on the road from Mariupol to rebel-controlled Novoazovsk, was damaged after artillery that exploded in a tree, crumbling bricks near its roof, shattering windows and ribbing metal from the building's facade.
As relatives of the hotel's owner swept up debris and gathered parts of the hotel building strewn across a lot, they lamented the brief stall in the fighting.
The ceasefire, brokered by envoys from Ukraine, the separatist leadership, Russia and Europe's OSCE security watchdog on Friday (September 5) in Minsk, is part of a peace plan intended to end a five-month conflict that has killed nearly 3,000 people.
The renewed shelling broke out hours after Russia'
STORY: Shelling overnight broke a fragile two-day peace in eastern Ukraine, with residents turning out to survey the damage on Sunday (September 7).
In the city on the Sea of Azov, to the south of Donetsk, government forces came under artillery fire.
One hotel on the road from Mariupol to rebel-controlled Novoazovsk, was damaged after artillery that exploded in a tree, crumbling bricks near its roof, shattering windows and ribbing metal from the building's facade.
As relatives of the hotel's owner swept up debris and gathered parts of the hotel building strewn across a lot, they lamented the brief stall in the fighting.
The ceasefire, brokered by envoys from Ukraine, the separatist leadership, Russia and Europe's OSCE security watchdog on Friday (September 5) in Minsk, is part of a peace plan intended to end a five-month conflict that has killed nearly 3,000 people.
The renewed shelling broke out hours after Russia'