“As many as 20 dead bodies have been received by the morgue. The figure is growing. The police have cordoned off the district, search operations are underway,” he said.
Earlier on Saturday, Ukraine’s interior ministry placed the blame for the shelling on self-defence forces of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR).
The DPR ministry of defence said Ukraine’s media reports about the shelling were hoax. “This is absolute misinformation. The forces of militia have not opened fire on Mariupol and its living quarters,” a spokesman of the defence ministry told the Donetsk news agency.
The ministry said the militia was holding the fort at Novoazovsk (a town 40 kilometres from Mariupol, controlled by the DPR) and they were not delivering any shelling there.
- A man, living in Mariupol, who witnessed the shelling, told TASS that the shell had come from the settlement of Stary Krym some 12 kilometres northwest of Mariupol, from the territory controlled by Ukraine’s Armed Forces.
Additional forces and hardware
The Ukrainian military are reinforcing troops near Mariupol, which came under shelling on Saturday, Ukraine’s Defence Minister Stepan Poltorak said at a meeting of the operational headquarters chaired by Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk.“We are receiving reconnaissance information that additional salvo fire systems are being pulled closer to Mariupol. And we are taking relevant measures to reinforce /our/ artillery units,” the minister said.
Poltorak said that Mariupol had been shelled from the settlement of Sakhanka located between Mariupol and Novoazovsk. He said there had been sic Grad multiple launch systems, of which four had been destroyed by the Ukrainian military.
“In general, the situation is being seriously aggravated along the entire line of combat operations,” he said.
Emergency meeting of UN Security Council
Ukraine is calling on the United Nations Security Council to immediately call a session over the shelling of the city of Mariupol, Ukraine’s Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said.“I have just called a meeting of ambassadors of the Group of Seven countries and ambassadors of member countries of the United Nations Security Council. We call on our Western partners and members of the United Nations Security Council to organize an emergency session of the U.N. Security Council,” he said.
Azovstal stops two blast furnaces
“On Saturday morning, the shelling damaged the electricity station, which was used for lifting water. Thus the Azovstal enterprise of the Metinvest group was cut off technical water. The enterprise stopped two boilers of the electricity and steam-electric blowing station, as well as two blast furnaces,” the enterprise’s director Enver Tsitishvili said.
"Azovstal Iron & Steel Works" is a part of metallurgical division (Metinvest group) and one of the largest, world-known metallurgical companies in Ukraine.........................http://itar-tass.com/en/world/773147
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