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37. Russian troops attacking Mariupol, Ukrainian militia leader says

Thu Sep 4, 2014, 10:34 PM

Sep 2014

MARIUPOL, Ukraine — Hopes for a rumored truce were shattered Thursday in this strategic eastern port as Russian troops attacked Ukrainian positions near the city with heavy artillery and missile fire, a Ukrainian militia leader said.

"It is a totally new game," said Oleg Odnorozhenko, deputy commander of the volunteer Azov Battalion, adding that the city's fighters are being attacked by regular Russian army troops, not just mercenaries and homegrown separatists.

The barrage on the outskirts of Mariupol coincided with declarations by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and leaders of the separatist militants in the country's east that a cease-fire was in the offing at negotiations today in Minsk, the capital of Belarus.

But both sides made it clear that a halt in the conflict was contingent on the other side in effect capitulating.

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