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The Croatian Foreign Ministry on Thursday told volunteers to come back home and stop fighting for the Ukrainian army and special police units in Ukraine.

The ministry's message comes after the Russian foreign ministry on the same day issued a complaint that Croats were violating a peace deal.

Heavy combat raged on the outskirts of the strategic Ukrainian port city of Mariupol on Sept. 5, threatening to undermine talks aimed at sealing a ceasefire after almost five months of conflict.
      
The main eastern rebel hub of Donetsk also came under sustained shelling overnight after several days of calm, AFP journalists said, with at least five civilians reported killed.