Fierce fighting erupts in Donetsk

– Heavy artillery fire yesterday rocked east Ukraine’s main rebel bastion of Donetsk in the fiercest fighting around the city in days.

Donetsk’s city hall said in a statement “the sound of artillery fi re and explosions can be heard in all districts” of the mining hub. A fragile truce has been in place in the east of the former Soviet republic since September. –

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