Here's a lengthy video that has surfaced on YouTube purportedly showing the aftermath of the shelling in Mariupol this morning (WARNING: contains some graphic images):
Here's an update on events in Mariupol from RFE/RL's news desk:
A pro-Russian rebel leader in eastern Ukraine has been quoted by Russia's RIA news agency as saying separatists had launched an attack on the port city of Mariupol on January 24.
Aleksandr Zakharchenko was quoted as saying, "Today an offensive was launched on Mariupol. This will be the best possible monument to all our dead."
RIA said Zakharchenko was speaking as he laid a wreath at the site where at least eight civilians died when a bus stop was shelled in Donetsk, the largest rebel-held city in eastern Ukraine.
Earlier on January 24, at least 20 people were killed and 87 were wounded by shelling in Mariupol, in an attack Kyiv blamed on the Russian-backed separatists.
Russian news agency Interfax earlier said rebels had denied the attack, which came a day after the rebels rejected a peace deal and said they were going on the offensive against the government in Kyiv.
(Reuters, AP, AFP)