A new wave of shelling and artillery fire has broken out in two key areas of the conflict in Eastern Ukraine. The news has sparked fears that the ceasefire deal agreed to on Friday morning by the Ukrainian government and pro-Russian separatists will be short lived.
Reports are so far unclear of the source of the fire, which erupted both near the airport of the rebel-stronghold city of Donetsk and on the outskirts of the strategic port city Mariupol. (Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko made a surprise visit to the latter today.) Mariupol remains under Kiev’s control, but has been the object of recent attempts at “liberation” by the both the rebels and the Russian military.