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By Matt Robinson MARIUPOL, Ukraine (Reuters) - Tossing his spanner to the ground, the man in a red beret and bomber jacket lowered himself into the captured armored personnel carrier (APC) and began to turn and tilt its 50 mm gun. Behind him, barricades of garbage bins and wooden pallets blocked every entrance to the central square of the eastern port city of Mariupol, after a day of gunfire and death that took Ukraine one step closer to civil war. Mariupol has the stench of a city spiraling out of control, where burning tires belch black smoke into the sky and a few women in motorcycle helmets cruise the downtown clutching metal bars. Many residents will join other mainly Russian-speakers in Ukraine's industrial southeast on Sunday in voting in a chaotic referendum on self-rule, on breaking away from a government in Kiev that wants to take the country westward, away from Moscow.
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