According
to the local defense ministry, the situation along the line of contact has
escalated dramatically over the past 24 hours
MOSCOW, January 27. /TASS/. The Ukrainian armed forces have used the Grad multiple rocket launchers for the first time since the beginning of this year to shell the territory west of Donetsk, the Defense Ministry of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) said on Wednesday.
MOSCOW, January 27. /TASS/. The Ukrainian armed forces have used the Grad multiple rocket launchers for the first time since the beginning of this year to shell the territory west of Donetsk, the Defense Ministry of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) said on Wednesday.
Commenting
on this information, Defense Ministry spokesman Eduard Basurin accused Kiev of
flagrant violations of the Minsk agreements. In his opinion, "it cannot be
ruled out that the Ukrainian positions close to which the shells exploded could
be the target of the shelling with the use of the Grad rocket launchers."
"This was supposed to be a pretext for accusing the DPR armed forces of
blatant violations of the agreements," Donetsk news agency quotes him as
saying.
According to the defense ministry, the situation along the line of contact has escalated dramatically over the past 24 hours. The Ukrainian military shelled the DPR territory 222 times using the Grad multiple rockets launchers for the first time in 2016 whose projectiles exploded in the vicinity of the villages of Staromikhailovka and Tudovskiye.
Source: ITAR-TASS 28-01-2016
