SPARTAK, Ukraine — Shelling and other clashes between government forces and Russian-backed separatists threw the cease-fire agreement in eastern Ukraine into deepening peril Sunday, two days after it took hold.
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Associated Press: Ukraine shelling claims lives, sets houses ablaze
: A Ukrainian serviceman walks past a column of destroyed military equipment near the village of Talakovka, some 22 kms northeast of Mariupol, on September 7, 2014, after an overnight bombing attack. Fighting around two flashpoint cities in eastern Ukraine on September 7 rattled a tenuous truce between government troops and pro-Russian rebels less than 48 hours after it came into force. Insurgent militias bombarded a government-held checkpoint on the eastern edge of the port city of Mariupol overnight, local officials said, killing one woman and triggering panic among residents. AFP PHOTO / ANATOLII BOIKO
