(13 Jun 2014) Ukrainian government troops, reinforced by volunteers from a paramilitary battalion, fought pro-Russia separatists on Friday in the southern port of Mariupol, Ukraine's interior minister said.
Arsen Avakov said that four government troops were wounded as forces retook buildings occupied by the rebels in the centre of the city and that troops destroyed a light armoured vehicle used by the separatists.
About a hundred members of the Azov Battalion militia forces, controlled by Kiev were seen at the scene of clashes, singing the national anthem, cheering and shouting "Azov, Azov", as they were leaving the scene in military trucks.
Remnants of a destroyed and burned out military truck and APC were seen at the spot where the heaviest fight took place.
The APC had DNR sprayed on it, which is the abbreviation for the Donetsk People's Republic in Russian.
The renewed fighting came as rebel leaders confirmed they have three tanks.
Ukrainian officials have said the tanks crossed from the Russian side of the porous border and were attacked by Ukrainian troops, but there has been no independent confirmation the tanks came from Russia.
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