January 2015 Mariupol rocket attack

The defenders of Mariupol will fight to the end, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said earlier.

Braced for an all-out Russian assault in the east, Ukraine vowed to "fight absolutely to the end" in strategically vital Mariupol, where the ruined port city's last known pocket of resistance was holed up in a sprawling steel plant laced with tunnels.

Russia's Defense Ministry said today that more than 1,000 Ukrainian servicemen had surrendered in Mariupol, a strategic port in eastern Ukraine that has been under siege by Russian forces for a month, AFP reported.

"In Mariupol, 1,026 Ukrainian servicemen from the 36th Naval Brigade voluntarily laid down their arms and surrendered," the ministry said.

At least 10 ethnic Greeks have been killed and several have been wounded since Russia started attacking Mariupol

There are more and more reports from the field about the kilometer-long line of vehicles of the Russian military forces that are going to Kyiv.
Yesterday ended with the expulsion of Russian diplomats from the United States, and in the meantime, fierce fighting continued in several Ukrainian cities.

Until then, Minister Shoygu should be summoned to the main administration of that service for the Donetsk and Luhansk regions in Mariupol for further processing, "Sputnik" reported.
According to the Ukrainian newspaper "Glavkom", the Russian minister is accused of being responsible, among other things, for "the formation of illegal armed formations".

Seven people were reportedly killed in the latest clashes, which occurred in the coastal city of Mariupol in southeastern Ukraine overnight.

The fighting, which included an intense artillery duel, took place along the front line between Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian separatists.

Ukraine's truce monitors reported July 28 coming under "targeted" fire in the past few days in incidents that have forced them to review future operations in the war-torn state.

The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine reported intensified fighting around Donetsk airport and Shyrokyne as well as military movements on both sides of the contact line.

This was stated in the latest report of the SMM, which monitors the implementation of the Minsk agreements.

Poroshenko calls on western countries to supply weapons

KIEV -- Petro Poroshenko has appealed to western states to provide military and technical help to the Ukrainian army in its war with the pro-Russian forces.