The self-proclaimed Donetsk republic defense ministry
said earlier that Ukrainian forces shelled the settlement of Zhabichevo and
Donetsk airport on Monday
MOSCOW, February 16. /TASS/. Two residential houses were destroyed in the night shelling of the western outskirts of Donetsk, local administration head Maxim Zhukovsky said on Tuesday.
MOSCOW, February 16. /TASS/. Two residential houses were destroyed in the night shelling of the western outskirts of Donetsk, local administration head Maxim Zhukovsky said on Tuesday.
"Two residential houses were completely destroyed
at night near the Trudovkskaya mine. Fortunately, no one was injured as people
managed to go down to the basement in time," Donetsk News Agency quoted
Zhukovsky as saying.
The self-proclaimed Donetsk republic (DPR) defense
ministry said earlier that Ukrainian forces shelled the settlement of
Zhabichevo and Donetsk airport on Monday.
The self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk republics said
that Ukrainian forces violated ceasefire regime 120 times and shelled DPR and
LPR territory more than 320 times since December 23 last year.
At the meeting of the Contact Group on January 13 the
sides supported the initiative of Russia’s envoy Boris Gryzlov on ensuring complete
ceasefire on the territory of Donbass. This is the seventh attempt to fully
observe the ceasefire regime in Ukraine’s south-east. At the recent meeting of
the Contact Group in Minsk the participants expressed regret over continuing
violations of ceasefire regime in Donbass.
Ceasefire is envisaged by the Minsk accords signed on 12
February 2015, after negotiations in the so-called "Normandy format"
in the Belarusian capital Minsk, bringing together Russian President Vladimir
Putin, French President Francois Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. The Minsk also accords envisage weaponry
withdrawal, prisoner exchange, local election in Donbass, constitutional reform
in Ukraine and establishing working sub-groups on security, political, economy
and humanitarian components of the Minsk accords.
Source: ITAR-TASS 16-02-2016
