The Ukrainian forces
started firing at the Donetsk airport with 120mm mortars, a DPR official said.
DONETSK
(Sputnik) – Ukrainian military forces are firing at the Donetsk Airport
with mortars and gunfire, the head of Donetsk’s Kuibyshevskiy District
said Tuesday.
“About a half hour ago the Ukrainian forces opened fire
on the territory of the Donetsk Airport. Fire is being conducted
with mortars and gunfire,” Ivan Prikhodko was cited by Donetsk News
Agency as saying.
According to Prikhodko, the mortars being fired
at the airport are of 120mm caliber.
In April 2014 the Ukrainian Armed Forces started a
military campaign to suppress Donbass residents who rejected the
"legitimacy" of the new coup-imposed government.
The Ukrainian government and independence supporters
in the state's southeast agreed to withdraw heavy artillery
with a caliber of over 100mm from the line of contact
in February, moving in September to extend this withdrawal
to weaponry with a caliber of under 100mm.
The airport in Donetsk saw some of the most
violent clashes in the Ukrainian conflict that have left its buildings
virtually in ruins.
Numerous ceasefire breaches have been registered
in Donbass since the Minsk peace deal was signed in February,
worked out by the leaders of Russia, France, Ukraine and Germany.
In early September, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko
said the ceasefire in eastern Ukraine was being observed, signifying that
the February's Minsk peace agreements between Kiev and Donbass
independence supporters were finally taking hold.
Source: Sputnik News 27-10-2015
