And this after losing her husband, who was fighting in a volunteer battalion...
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Artillery shelling has been reported to the east of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, hours before talks on a possible cease-fire.
Pro-government Ukrainian forces said on September 5 they had come under fire several times during the night.
OSCE observers reported heavy fighting in two villages east of the city on September 4.
Mariupol, a strategic port city on the Sea of Azov west of the Russian border, has become the latest hotspot in the five-month-old conflict in eastern Ukraine.
Rebels recently occupied a town between Mariupol and the Russian border as part of an offensive in which they have also gained ground further north, near Luhansk and Donetsk.
Russian news agencies reported shelling in Donetsk overnight.
The fighting comes despite hopes for a cease-fire deal at a meeting in Minsk later on September 5. (Reuters, AFP, and AFP)
As Ukrainian forces fought pro-Russian separatists just 20 kilometers east of Mariupol, a strategic port city on the Sea of Azov, about 5,000 people gathered in the city center for a peace rally on September 4. The demonstrators sang the Ukrainian national anthem and chanted "Glory to Ukraine! Glory to the heroes!" (RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service)
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