Ukrainian Kramatorsk Shelled After Termination of Ceasefire

Mortar bombs are seen near a burnt Ukrainian military vehicle in Oktyabrskoe village, near the eastern Ukranian city of Kramatorsk, Ukraine. Archive photo by EPA/ROMAN PILIPEY.

Ukrainian military forces have waged a massive artillery fire at east Ukraine’s Donetsk regional city of Kramatorsk overnight to Wednesday.

“A strong gunfire had been waged at the city which was literally showered with shells. Powerful blasts were heard with a frequency like in automatic fire,” a representative of people’s militia told ITAR-TASS.

Several residential houses caught fire in the shelling in the settlement of Krasnogorka near the city of Kramatorsk. Massive communication breakdowns were reported in the city. Meanwhile locals were fleeing the zone of combat actions.

Active gunfire resumed in the city of Kramatorsk, after Ukraine's President Poroshenko announced the end of the ceasefire with pro-Russian separatists fighting in the eastern part of the country.

“We will attack and liberate our land,“ Poroshenko said in his address to people, saying that the termination of the ceasefire was the response to “terrorists, insurgents, marauders, everyone who tortures civilians, paralyzes the economy of the region, disrupts payments of salaries, pensions...and deprives people of normal peaceful life.“

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