Fears for truce as attacking rebels mass near Ukraine port city

[WorldNews]

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Pro-Russian forces massing near Ukraine's port city of Mariupol are continuing to attack government troop positions, Kiev said, fuelling concerns for the fate of a UN-backed ceasefire. Continued hostilities meant a pull-back of heavy weapons could not go ahead as agreed, Ukrainian officials said. "As Ukrainian positions are still being fired upon there can be no talk yet of a withdrawal of arms," military spokesman Vladyslav Seleznyov wrote in a statement on Facebook on Monday. Ukraine's currency, the hryvnia, plummeted some 10 percent on Monday because of the instability.

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