It quotes eyewitnesses as saying several minibuses drove to the military unit of Ukraine’s interior forces at about 8 pm, local time (9 pm Moscow time). They said people wearing grey uniforms had got out and pelted the premises with Molotov cocktails. Shots could be heard in response. According to the website, one person was killed and 12 were wounded and taken to hospital.
At about 1 am local time on Thursday, the website reported military hardware moving towards Mariupol from the direction of the settlement of Starodubovka. After that, it said that sounds of the firing at the military unit had stopped.
It was reported on Wednesday, that protesters had seized and were holding the Mariupol mayor’s office.
[itar-tass.com]
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Three people were killed in a raid on a base in eastern Ukraine overnight, the country's interior minister says, as the US, Russia, the EU and Ukraine begin crisis talks in Geneva........
ReplyDeleteThe three pro-Russian separatists were killed in a clash with Ukrainian forces in Mariupol, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said on Facebook.
The Geneva meeting is the first such gathering since the crisis escalated...............http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-27059321
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