The silence regime was also observed in the Donetsk
Region
LUHANSK, December 9. /TASS/. The regime of silence
declared in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday has not been violated in the territory
of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR), LPR head Igor
Plotnitsky said.
“According to our information, the regime of silence has
not been violated on the first day. No shooting of shelling has been reported
since the moment this regime was imposed,” he said, adding that the town of
Pervomaisk had been shelled in the morning, before the regime of silence was
imposed.
An intention to introduce a moratorium on combat actions
was made public by President Petro Poroshenko on December 4. The initiative was
welcomed by officials of the self-proclaimed independence-minded Donetsk and
Luhansk People’s Republics.
Alexander Zakharchenko, the head of the Donetsk republic
said the ceasefire had been declared as far back as September 5 at a meeting of
the Contact Group for Ukraine in Minsk.
“We didn’t violate it on a single occasion,” he said.
“All the violations have been committed by the Ukrainian Army. If the Ukrainian
side doesn’t open fire, we won’t open it either.”
Andrei Lysenko, an official spokesman for the National
Security and Defense Council said the objective of the Day of Silence was give
a start to the fulfilling of Minsk agreements - that is, to begin the pullback
of heavy weaponry, to release prisoners, to clear minefields, and to begin
demilitarization of the region.
Source: ITAR-TASS 09-12-2014
