The
crew had left the zone of the incident and had moved to a safe area.
DONETSK,
January 29. /TASS/. A crew of the Russian TV channel NTV came under gunfire
opened by the Ukrainian military on Sunday in the city of Makeyevka on the
territory of the self-proclaimed unrecognized Donetsk People's Republic,
reporter Danil Levin told the Donetsk News Agency.
"Around
14:00 hours when we were filming interviews with local residents in the
districts of Makeyevka shelled by the Ukrainian military on Saturday, gunfire
began anew," he said. "There were many local residents around us and
everyone had to fall to the ground."
"By
the time of reporting, the crew had left the zone of the incident and had moved
to a safe area," the agency said.
Earlier on
Sunday, the operations command of the Donetsk Republic said the Ukrainian
military had opened fire targeting Makeyevka, once in the past a major center
of Ukrainian steel smelting. Two residential buildings were damaged and one was
fully ruined as a result.
Also on
Sunday, a resident of Donetsk was wounded when the pro-Kiev units opened
gunfire at the city, Ruslan Yakubov, the chief of staff of the Donetsk
republic's operations command told the Donetsk News Agency.
"A
shell hit a car repair workshop on Kuibyshev Street and wounded a peaceful
civilian," he told the Donetsk News Agency.
Eduard Basurin,
the official spokesman for the operations command of the republic’s
self-defense forces, said that on the whole the Ukrainian armed units had
shelled the populated localities in different parts of the republic
"The
criminal Ukrainian forces have violated the ceasefire arrangements on 1,049
occasions in the past twenty-four hours," he said. "The enemy units
launched fourteen artillery shells at the areas near the frontline, including
eight 152 mm shells, ten tank shells, 367 mortar mines, of which 145 mines had
the 120 mm caliber, and 583 projectiles from grenade launchers of various
types."
Basurin
also said that the pro-Kiev units had used infantry combat vehicles and small
arms.
The biggest
intensity of shelling was registered in the townships of Trudovskoye,
Aleksandrovka and Staromikhailovka adjoining Donetsk in the west.
In the
Yasinovataya district, the shelling was most intense in the villages of
Spartak, Vassilyevka and Krutaya Balka. In addition, high intensity of shelling
was reported in a number of places in the Novoazovsk district in the south of
the Donetsk republic, in the town of Dokuchayevsk and in the suburbs of
Gorlovka.
"An
investigative group has recorded all the crimes committed by the Ukrainian
command and we'll report them to a commission for investigation of the
Ukrainian Armed Forces crimes and to the special monitoring mission of the
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe."
Defense and
security agencies of the republic said earlier the pro-Kiev units had launched
265 tank projectiles, artillery shells and mines at the republic's populated
localities along the entire line of contact, which separates the forces of the
parties to the armed civil conflict in eastern Ukraine.
Electricity
outages occurred in six villages in the south of the republic.
Members of
the Ukraine Contact Group that is seeking settlement to the conflict in Donbass
reached agreement at a regular meeting in Minsk on December 21 to introduce a
comprehensive and all-embracing ceasefire in the zone of conflict as of
December 24. The December arrangement marked a tenth attempt to introduce a
ceasefire since the autumn of 2014 but the number of cases of shelling on the
part of the pro-Kiev armed units increased again after several days of a lull.
Source: ITAR-TASS 30-01-2017
