Residents Fearful Amid Fragile Ukraine Truce
Updated: 12:15pm UK, Sunday 07 September 2014
By Katie Stallard, Moscow Correspondent, in Mariupol
On the outskirts of Mariupol you could see the remains of Ukrainian artillery still smouldering.
We saw them recovering another piece that had been abandoned in a field.
In the middle of the main road, east outside the city, there is a Ukrainian army tank.
It has ended up disabled in what were meant to be its own side's defences - a tank trap incongruously painted with anti-war slogans and doves of peace.
The force of the impact had flung the barrel right round and destroyed part of a huge concrete block.
On one side of the tank the crew had written "Glory" and "Death to the enemies!" On the other it said "To Moscow!"
Further up the road we found the new rebel front line - they've advanced about 15 kilometres west in three days.
They turned us around and told us to leave.
We saw a T-80 battle tank dug in to the corner of the field behind them.
The pro-Russian rebels are now just a few hundred metres outside the village of Shyrokyne.
We found Ukrainian positions above the village unmanned, the hills leading up to them pockmarked with the impact of artillery fire.
One shell had landed just outside a church - its windows were shattered by shrapnel.
Another had hit a house nearby.
Tamara Spitsa, a retired music teacher, told Sky News she had never imagined this could happen in her village.
"We were hiding in the bathroom with my husband when they started shooting, very loud explosions, shrapnel like this hit my house and broke the roof."
Another man, who gave his name as Andrei, said there was no electricity in the village now.
"Scared is not the right word," he said of his feelings during the shelling.
"[President] Poroshenko should sit right here in the cellar with Litsenko [the Ukrainian Security Council spokesman] - they should be right here and then ask them if they're scared or not?
"Everyone was hiding in their cellars."
In the next village a mortar landed in front of the school, showering the canteen with fragments.
The force sliced branches off trees in the playground.
A woman was killed nearby by a mortar outside her house. She had worked selling vegetables in the market.
Her neighbour, Viktor, blamed the Ukrainian side for firing from outside their village.
"Two Grad rockets came this way," he said, "They started shooting on the rebels' positions on the outskirts.
"As a result they started answering and here is the result - we have people who are dead and injured."
We saw them digging fresh graves in the village cemetery - they want to lay the dead to rest while the ceasefire lasts.
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