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CRI听力:Fighting Flared as EU Urges Ukraine Extend Ceasefire

2014-07-01来源:CRI

A Russian television cameraman has been killed as fighting in eastern Ukraine continues, despite the extended ceasefire that is to expire at the end of today.

Anatoly Klyan was shot in the stomach while accompanying a group of solders' mothers to a pro-Kiev military unit.

The 68-year-old is the third Russian journalist killed since rebels began an uprising against the central government in April.

Meanwhile, residents in the eastern flashpoint city of Slavyansk reported shelling of the city by government forces.

"When shelling finished, I ran here. All people were screaming in panic, crying. Everyone had suffered damages, all windows blew out. It's nonsense, you understand. How can we continue living? What should we count on? Will we wake tomorrow or not? We don't know that at all."

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko is now under pressure from the EU to keep up the ceasefire.

Earlier, leaders of Russia, Germany and France urged Poroshenko to extend the ceasefire a second time.

Meanwhile, Ukrainian soldiers and activists have called on Poroshenko to end the current ceasefire, saying the plan is giving rebels time to regroup.

The ceasefire plan was drawn as Porshenko put forward his 15-point peace plan.

The plan includes decentralizing power and holding early local elections.

The EU says it will impose more penalties on Moscow unless rebels act to wind down the crisis in eastern Ukraine.

Moscow denies helping the insurgents and says it is the pro-Western Ukrainian government that is fanning the violence.