MARIUPOL: Gunfire and heavy shelling rocked a key frontline city in eastern Ukraine overnight, raising fears on Sunday that a tenuous truce between government and rebel forces had already collapsed.

Numerous explosions rattled the night sky and thick smoke was visible on the horizon of Mariupol, a strategic government-held port city on the Azov Sea in the southeast of the country.

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