Sentence examples for deadly shelling from inspiring English sources

A retired Yugoslav Navy commander pleaded guilty today at the United Nations court here to war-crimes charges based on the deadly shelling of Dubrovnik in 1991.

That combination, he said, had increased the need for pressure on North Korea, particularly if there is another provocation on South Korea by the North like the deadly shelling of a South Korean island in November.

In a meeting with Japan's defense minister, Toshimi Kitazawa, Admiral Mullen said the two nations needed to support South Korea after North Korea's deadly shelling last month of a South Korean island.

Of the deadly shelling of Yeonpyeong island in 2010, he added: "It was a provocation by North Korea's military to justify their status and existence and the possession of nuclear weapons".

Ukrainian troops say they have made gains around one of the main remaining separatist strongholds, as Moscow reportedly weighed up "targeted" cross-border strikes following the alleged deadly shelling of a Russian town.

But the conundrum extends far beyond last week's double Korean-peninsula whammy, which involved not only North Korea's deadly shelling of a South Korean military installation, but also the disclosure of a just-completed centrifuge plant that could one day enable North Korea to enrich uranium into nuclear fuel and add to its arsenal of 8 to 12 nuclear weapons.

The advantage was that the gunners could fire shells to explode over troop positions, showering them with deadly shell fragments.

Second, for a week Russian forces and their proxies engaged in a series of deadly provocations, shelling Georgian villages that were under my government's control with much of the artillery located in Tskhinvali, often within sites controlled by Russian peacekeepers.

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The deadly sound of shells striking the ground in repetition seemed to be coming closer.

A deadly rain of shells and shrapnel bombarded the town's 8,000 inhabitants for hours.