Lady Vizsla
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- Posted: Sun, 07 Sep 2014 14:59:24 +0000
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There has been fresh shelling near Donetsk airport in eastern Ukraine, raising fears that Friday's ceasefire may collapse.
The truce held for much of Saturday but shelling in Mariupol, which killed one woman, was followed by the Donetsk airport blasts early on Sunday.
The truce and 12-point peace roadmap was signed at talks involving Ukraine, Russia, separatist rebels and the OSCE.
Fighting in the east has left some 2,600 people dead since April.
On Sunday, Ukrainian security official Volodymyr Poliovyi said 864 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed since the conflict began.
Russia has repeatedly denied accusations by Ukraine and the West that it has been sending troops into Ukraine's eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions to help the rebels, who want to establish an independent state.
Before the ceasefire was agreed in Minsk, Belarus, on Friday, the separatists had been advancing on both Donetsk airport and Mariupol, a key city on the route to Crimea, which was annexed by Russia in March.
The truce held for much of Saturday but shelling in Mariupol, which killed one woman, was followed by the Donetsk airport blasts early on Sunday.
The truce and 12-point peace roadmap was signed at talks involving Ukraine, Russia, separatist rebels and the OSCE.
Fighting in the east has left some 2,600 people dead since April.
On Sunday, Ukrainian security official Volodymyr Poliovyi said 864 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed since the conflict began.
Russia has repeatedly denied accusations by Ukraine and the West that it has been sending troops into Ukraine's eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions to help the rebels, who want to establish an independent state.
Before the ceasefire was agreed in Minsk, Belarus, on Friday, the separatists had been advancing on both Donetsk airport and Mariupol, a key city on the route to Crimea, which was annexed by Russia in March.
