Russia's War Against Ukraine
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Denis Kazansky: Mariupol holding its breath
As the tenuous truce holds in eastern Ukraine, fears of an imminent offensive against Mariupol are on hold but have far from disappeared. As Russian forces advanced on the port city, the ceasefire was broken overnight on September 6-7 when a Ukrainian military checkpoint on Mariupol’s eastern fringes were shelled, leaving one woman dead. Two days earlier, a number of Ukrainian soldiers were killed in another checkpoint attack.