Janurary 24, 2015. In the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, 30 people where killed by missiles reportedly fired by separatist rebels and the Russian military. This comes after the break down of Ukraine peace talks as rebels reject future talks for reasons unknown. Fighting in the region is surging to intense levels and the United Nations claim that an estimate of 262 people have been killed in just nine days since negotiations crumbled.
What makes this absolutely critical is Mariupol's location in eastern Ukraine. Bordering the sea of Azov, Mariupol hugs a coastal route that leads to the Russian border of recently annexed Crimea. The region is sought after by separatists who coin the notion of Novorossiya; a re-claiming of the fragments of Russia's former Empire. While the aforementioned is to be taken with a grain of salt, one can merely speculate when claims are being made by Russia to 'protect' ethnic Russians in any region currently sharing the Russian border.
Josephine Madrawska
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/1/24/mariupol-ukraine.html
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The Novorossiyans were actually capturing Mariupol when the last round of fighting came to an end...Putin called them off so that there would be a ceasefire.
Ukraine's broken the ceasefire to try to regain ground in Donetsk, they are once again suffering an embarrassing defeat...now the Novorossiyans are going for round two at Mariupol to see if they can capture it before Putin arranges another ceasefire and orders them to pull back.
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