DONETSK, July 13. /TASS/. A woman has been injured in a
shelling attack the Ukrainian security forces launched on the Trudovskiye
settlement on the western outskirts of Donetsk, security sources of the self-proclaimed
Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) reported on Wednesday.
"At around 00:20 am, a civilian woman, born in 1958
got shrapnel wounds result in a mortar shelling attack on the Trudovskiye settlement,"
the DPR security bodies told the Donetsk News Agency.
The injured woman has been taken to hospital, medics say
she is in a satisfactory condition.
Kiev’s forces, according to DPR, opened fire from
positions near Maryinka, using 122 mm mortars.
Members of the Contact Group for the settlement of the
situation in the east of Ukraine at a meeting in Minsk on April 29 agreed on a
complete ceasefire in Donbass starting from midnight on April 30. It is an
eighth ceasefire agreement since the autumn of 2014. The sides however continue
accusing each other of ceasefire violations.
Kiev’s security forces in the people’s militia ··
responsibility zone have been repeatedly violating the truce, opening fire from
mortars and tank weapons, which had to be withdrawn in accordance with the
Minsk agreements.
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 regime between Ukrainian government forces and
people’s militias in the self-proclaimed republics in Donetsk and Lugansk (DPR
and LPR) starting from February 15, 2015 and a 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 June 17,
Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine Konstantin Yeliseev
told a news conference in Kiev that advisors to the leaders of the Normandy
Quartet agreed at the meeting in Minsk on June 15-16 to prepare a new summit in
the Normandy format (Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany) on the Ukrainian
conflict’s peaceful settlement.
Source: ITAR-TASS 13-07-2016
