Russia's War Against Ukraine
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Denis Kazansky: Mariupol holding its breath
Local workers build a new check point on a road in the outskirts of Mariupol on Sept. 17, 2014.
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.
