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Commenting on the attack on the Ukrainian port town Mariupol, member of the European Parliament Urmas Paet said the European Union and the rest of the democratic world cannot look on as the situation in Ukraine is escalating.
MEP Paet: World cannot look on as situation in Ukraine escalates
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«The shelling of Mariupol and putting of Russian troops on alert in Crimea indicate the beginning of a new attempt to establish a physical link between the areas of Lugansk and Donetsk under the control of so-called separatists and Crimea,» Paet told BNS on Saturday.
«This unfortunately means that the coming weeks will be active militarily and full of bloodshed. Hostilities will affect new areas, which will bring with it victims and new people displaced in addition to the present 600,000,» the former long serving foreign minister of Estonia said.
At least 30 people have been killed and over hundred injured in a series of rocket attacks by pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine's government-held port of Mariupol. The Grad rockets hit a market in a residential area in the east of the city.