KIEV, Jan 24 (Reuters) – Fifteen people were killed in shelling in the east Ukrainian port city of Mariupol on Saturday, Ukraine’s interior ministry said, an attack Kiev blamed on separatist rebels and the Russian military.
A witness described the shelling to Reuters as enough to knock the paint off his house.
The deaths follow the separatists’ rejection of more peace talks and as fighting surged to its most intense in months. The United Nations said on Friday 262 had been killed in the previous nine days.
Government-held Mariupol, on the Sea of Azov, lies on a coastal route from the Russian border …read more
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