Ceasefire in East Ukraine Frays, Woman Killed by Shelling

(FNA)- A woman died and at least four people were wounded on Sunday when fighting flared again in Eastern Ukraine, jeopardising a ceasefire struck less than two days earlier between Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russian separatists.

The accord, brokered by envoys from Ukraine, the separatist leadership, Russia and the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), is part of a peace plan intended to end a five-month conflict that has killed nearly 3,000 people and caused the sharpest confrontation between Russia and the West since the Cold War a generation ago, World Bulletin reported.

Shelling resumed near the port of Mariupol on the Sea of Azov late on Saturday night, just hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko had agreed in a phone call that the truce was holding.

Fighting also broke out early on Sunday on the Northern outskirts of rebel-held Donetsk, the region's industrial hub.

Early on Sunday afternoon both cities were calm again.