According to the local mayor’s office, Ukrainian shells
have also hit five residential houses and two farm buildings.
MOSCOW, March 2. /TASS/. Five transformer substations on
the western outskirts of the southeast Ukrainian city of Donetsk have been
de-energized as a result of a shelling attack of the Ukrainian forces, head of
the city’s Petrovsky district administration Maxim Zhukovsky said on Wednesday.
"Four transformer substations in the Petrovsky
district and one — in Alexandrovka have been cut off from power supply as
a result of the Ukrainian forces’ shelling attack," he is quoted by the
Donetsk news agency. Zhukovsky added that the restoration work has been
started.
In addition, according to the Donetsk mayor’s office,
Ukrainian shells have hit five residential houses and two farm buildings. No
casualties have been reported.
Earlier on Wednesday, a representative of the people’s
militia of the self-self-proclaimed Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR) said that
Kiev troops shelled militia positions six times over the past 24 hours,
including from mortars.
The Ukrainian headquarters of the military operation in
Donbass have accused the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics
of shelling Ukraine’s territory 47 times.
The Package of Measures to fulfil the September 2014
Minsk agreements, known as Minsk-2, that was signed in Minsk on February 12,
2015 envisaged a ceasefire between Ukrainian government forces and people’s
militias in the self-proclaimed republics in Donetsk and Lugansk starting from
February 15, 2015 and subsequent withdrawal of heavy weapons from the line of
engagement. The deal also laid out a roadmap for a lasting settlement in
Ukraine, including local elections and constitutional reform to give more
autonomy to the war-torn eastern regions.
On January 13, 2016, the Trilateral Contact Group
meeting in the Belarusian capital city Minsk agreed on yet another, the
seventh, ceasefire in Donbass from January 14. The sides however continue to
accuse each other of ceasefire violation.
Source: ITAR-TASS 02-02-2016
