"The enemy launched 216 shells from weapons of
122mm caliber, tank weapons, mortars of 82 and 120mm", said the republic’s
defense authorities.
DONETSK, October 23. /TASS/. The Kiev military during the past night launched 216 shells on territory of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), the republic’s defense authorities said on Sunday.
"Between 18:30 and 23:30, the Ukrainian side shelled Staromikhailovka, Alexandrovka and Trudovskiye west of Donetsk, the areas near Yasinovataya and Krutaya Balka," the Donetsk News Agency quoted the source. "The enemy launched 216 shells from weapons of 122mm caliber, tank weapons, mortars of 82 and 120mm."
Head of the Sakhanka village’s administration Igor
Nagorny said a house was ruined in the shelling. Luckily, nobody was inside the
house during the shelling, he added.
On August 26, the parties to the Contact Group for
settling the armed civil conflict in eastern Ukraine made a yet another, ninth,
attempt to attain ceasefire. The agreement they reached suggests the ceasefire
takes effect as of September 1. However, the Ukrainian side keeps on shelling
DPR’s settlements. The DPR has been daily reporting more than 100 episodes of
shelling with the use of weapons of 120mm and 122mm caliber.
Despite the ongoing provocations, the leaders of the
self-proclaimed republics, the DPR and LPR (Lugansk People’s Republic), on
September 13 banned their servicemen to open retaliatory fire in response to
provocations from Ukrainian troops. On the following day, German Foreign
Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said after talks in Kiev that Ukrainian
President Pyotr Poroshenko had also guaranteed Ukraine’s readiness to observe
truce in Donbass.
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.
Source: ITAR-TASs 23-10-2016
