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MARINKA, Ukraine (AP) -- The gray-bearded officer's summary of the war in eastern Ukraine is terse with weariness.
"We stand in place. We shoot over there, they shoot back from over there," Mykhailo Gaiduk said. "It's just burning up time."
The area that Gaiduk calls "over there" is territory controlled by Russia-backed separatists, where a rebel using the nom de guerre of Chester agrees: "Everybody is tired of this pointless war."
A cease-fire signed two years ago was supposed to have ended the fighting. So was a cease-fire last year.
A temporary truce called for the beginning of the new school year on Sept. 1 briefly tamped down the fighting — the Ukrainian side reported only one soldier and one rebel were killed Tuesday. But that relative calm is clearly fragile; Ukraine also claimed rebels fired some 90 mortar rounds at troops outside the city of Mariupol, one of the war's tensest areas.
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