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Eight border guards rescued, two missing after shelling in Sea of Azov

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Sept. 1, 2014, 10:57 p.m. | Ukraine — by Interfax-Ukraine

A burning Ukrainian patrol boat in the Azov Sea near Mariupol on Aug. 31.
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The Ukrainian State Border Service said eight Ukrainian crewmembers were rescued and the search for two others is continuing following the shelling of two Mariupol coastguard service motor boats, the Grif and the Kalkan.

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