DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) - A Reuters witness heard prolonged shelling in an area north of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine's largest city, and saw plumes of black smoke filling the sky on Sunday morning, in a further test for a ceasefire that is barely 40 hours old.
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Reuters: Prolonged shelling heard near Donetsk airport
Ukrainian army soldiers check a burnt army truck on September 7, 2014 after an overnight bombing attack, at an Ukrainian army checkpoint in the outskirts of the key southeastern port city of Mariupol. Gunfire and heavy shelling rocked a key frontline city in eastern Ukraine overnight, raising fears on September 7 that a tenuous truce between government and rebel forces had already collapsed. Numerous explosions rattled the night sky and thick smoke was visible on the horizon of Mariupol, a strategic government-held port city on the Azov Sea in the southeast of the country. AFP PHOTO / PHILIPPE DESMAZES
