At Least 10 Killed in Rocket Attack in Eastern Ukraine Port City

DONETSK, Ukraine — Rockets struck homes and a market in the Azov Sea port city of Mariupol in eastern Ukraine on Saturday killing at least 10 people in the latest indication that after a relative lull last fall the war has flared up again in eastern Ukraine.

On a street, a car burned and spewed black smoke while smoke also rose from at least one other site in the city, photographs posted on social networking sites showed. The Ukrainian Pravda newspaper reported, “fighters are shelling Mariupol and people are fleeing.”

“Ukrainian forces fully control Sector M,” the statement said, referring to the section of the front around Mariupol. “The enemy is indeed gradually building up the intensity and power of artillery strikes, however they are not prepared for a full-scale assault of our part of the front.”

The New York Times