On the eastern edge of Mariupol, a port on Ukraine's Sea of Azov coast with a population of 400,000, locals armed with shovels were blunt about why they were digging trenches: the Russians, they said, were coming.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
Financial Times: Mariupol digs in and waits for Russians
Villagers look at pro-Russian fighters pasting a paper on the wall of a supermarket in downtown Novoazovsk, 50kms east of the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, on Aug. 29, 2014.
