Ukrainian Truce Frays as Rebels Step Up Airport Attacks
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Ukraine’s military fought off a separatist assault on the Donetsk airport as shelling killed 10 civilians in the eastern city, destabilizing a cease-fire that curtailed violence and casualties for most of September.
Government forces still hold the airport of the biggest city in the combat zone after repelling a one-hour attack, the army said on Facebook yesterday. The shelling that killed the civilians and wounded at least nine more including a round that exploded meters from a school where 70 children were in class, the Donetsk regional council said on its website.