Fears for truce as attacking rebels mass near Ukraine port city
Source: Reuters / AFP
Kiev (AFP) - Pro-Russian forces massing near Ukraine's port city of Mariupol are continuing to attack government troop positions, Kiev said on Monday, fuelling concerns for the fate of a UN-backed ceasefire.
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Continued hostilities meant a pull-back of heavy weapons could not go ahead as agreed, Ukrainian officials said.
"As Ukrainian positions are still being fired upon there can be no talk yet of a withdrawal of arms," military spokesman Vladyslav Seleznyov wrote in a statement on Facebook on Monday.
Tensions were also high following a bomb blast Sunday in the normally peaceful eastern city of Kharkiv. In their latest toll, authorities said that three people had died in the "terrorist" attack.
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What will the excuse be when the Russian mercs attack, invade and occupy the port city of Mariupol?
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Russia needs the port and the land bridge to Crimea. Interesting they seem to be massing troops in the north of Crimea now also. They will go in to help the poor residents of Mariupol. 