According to the source, Kiev forces fired 27 shells at
DPR territory. Information about victims and damages is being verified.
MOSCOW, May 21. /TASS/. Ukrainian forces have shelled the western outskirts of Donetsk and Dokuchaevsk in the evening, a source in law enforcement agencies of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) said on Saturday.
"At 9:45pm Ukrainian forces opened fire from
mortars of 120mm caliber at the settlements of Staromikhaylovka and
Dokuchaevsk. Shellings stopped by 11pm," Donetsk News Agency quoted the
source as saying.
According to the source, Kiev forces fired 27 shells at
DPR territory. Information about victims and damages is being verified.
The settlement of Zaytsevo was also subjected to massive
shelling by Ukrainian forces on Friday, head of local administration Irina
Dikun said.
The participants of the Contact Group on settling the
situation in east Ukraine agreed on observing Easter ceasefire starting from
April 30. However, the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk republics (DPR and
LPR) and Kiev forces continue accusing each other of violating the 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 Pyotr Poroshenko. The package of measures also envisages
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 21-05-2016
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Three militia fighters killed in shelling of Donetsk
republic over past week
A total of 2,086 episodes of shelling of DPR territories
by Ukrainian troops were reported in the past week.
MOSCOW, May 20. /TASS/. Three servicemen of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) were killed and three more were wounded in the past week in shelling by Ukrainian troops, commanded of the DPR operational headquarters Denis Sinenkov said on Friday.
"Three servicemen were killed and three more were wounded in shelling," the Donetsk News Agency quoted him as saying.
Earlier in the day, he said that a total of 2,086
episodes of shelling of DPR territories by Ukrainian troops were reported in
the past week.
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 April 29, the Contact Group for a settlement in
eastern Ukraine agreed the full ceasefire in Donbass starting from the midnight
of April 30. It is an eighth ceasefire agreement since the autumn of 2014. The
sides however continue to accuse each other of ceasefire violation.
Source-ITAR-TASS 21-05-2016
