According to the source, the fire on the DPR positions
was delivered from positions of the Ukrainian military near Avdeyevka
MOSCOW, April 4. /TASS/. The Ukrainian military launched about 20 mines on the Spartak settlement and on the airport area in Donetsk northern suburbs, a source at defense bodies of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) told the Donetsk News Agency on Monday.
"The Ukrainian side opened fire on Spartak at about
21:30, and at about that time they also opened fire on territory of the former
airport," the source said. "Thus, they launched two mines of 120mm
caliber and 18 mines of 82mm caliber."
The source said the fire on the DPR positions was
delivered from positions of the Ukrainian military near Avdeyevka. Information
about the injured or damages is being verified now.
Besides, the people’s militia of the self-proclaimed
Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR) reported the pro-Kiev military had opened fire
on the republic. The military used automatic guns to fire from the Luganskaya
village, aiming at the monument to Prince Igor.
"No losses have been reported," the
LuganskInformCenter said.
At a meeting of the Contact Group on settlement of the
situation in Ukraine’s south east, 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 04-04-2016
