The information about casualties or damage is currently
being ascertained
MOSCOW, April 10. /TASS/. Kiev’s security forces opened fire overnight on a suburb of Donetsk and the Novoazovsky district of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), the DPR security agencies told the Donetsk News Agency on Sunday.
"Units of the enemy shelled during the night the Spartak settlement from 122-mm artillery weapons. The settlement’s shelling started at around midnight," said the source, adding that fire was also opened from tank weapons and 82-mm caliber mortars from the Ukrainian armed forces’ positions in the area of Avdeyevka.
In addition, the Sakhanka village in the Novoazovsky
district in the south of DPR came under fire. "Shelling of the Sakhanka
village resumed at 23:40 (Saturday). A total of 25 shells of 82-mm caliber were
fired on it," the DPR security agencies said.
The information about casualties or damage is currently
being ascertained.
At a meeting of the Contact Group on settlement of the
situation in Ukraine’s southeast, on January 13, the parties agreed yet another
ceasefire would begin on January 14, however the militia and the military
continue accusing each other of truce violations.
A peace deal struck on February 12, 2015 in Minsk,
Belarus, by the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France envisaged a
ceasefire between Ukrainian forces and people’s militias starting from February
15, followed by withdrawal of heavy weapons from the line of military
engagement and prisoner release.
The package of measures envisages the pullback of all
heavy weapons by both parties to locations equidistant from the disengagement
line in order to create a security zone at least 50 kilometers wide for artillery
systems with a caliber of 100 mm or more, a zone of security 70 kilometers wide
for multiple rocket launchers and a zone 140 kilometers wide for multiple
rocket launchers Tornado-S, Uragan and Smerch and the tactical rocket systems
Tochka-U.
The final document says that the Ukrainian troops are to
be pulled back away from the current line of engagement and the militias of the
Donetsk and Lugansk regions, from the engagement line set by the Minsk
Memorandum of September 19, 2014.
Source: ITAR-TASS 10-04-2016
