DONETSK, February 25. /TASS/. The Ukrainian military on
Friday evening and during night to Saturday launched 435 mines, tank and
artillery shells on DPR, the republic reported on Saturday.
"Between 18:00 and 02:00, the Ukrainian side launched
435 tank shells, artillery shells of 122 and 152mm and mines of 82 and 120mm on
settlements along the line of engagement in the self-proclaimed Donetsk
People’s Republic (DPR)," the Donetsk News Agency quoted the source.
Under
fire from positions of the Ukrainian military were the Donetsk airport, the
Volvo Center, Trudovskiye, Alexandrovka, Staromikhailovka, Zaitsevo,
Ozeryanskaya, Golmovsky, Mikhailovka, Zhabichevo, Spartak, Krutaya Balka,
Vasilyevka, Veseloye, Sosnovskoye, Sakhanka, Kominternovo, Leninskoye, Oktyabr,
Bezymennoye, Yasinovataya’s industrial area, Dokuchayevsk and Debaltsevo’s
suburbs. Along with heavy weapons, the military used weapons of infantry
fighting vehicles, various types of grenade launchers, automatic guns and small
arms.
In
late January, the situation along the line of contact in Donbass deteriorated,
the number of shelling attacks dramatically increased. The number of destroyed
buildings has been growing, there have been reports of civilian deaths.
On
February 1, members the Contact Group on settling the conflict in eastern
Ukraine held a meeting in the Belarusian capital of Minsk, demanding that
hostilities in Donbass be stopped, weapons and military hardware be withdrawn
from the line of contact area by February 5. However, the Ukrainian military
have not implemented the decisions of the Contact Group.
On
February 15, the Contact Group made a decision that all weapons banned by the
Minsk agreements should be withdrawn from the line of contact by February 20.
Foreign ministers of the four member states of the Normandy Quartet (Russia,
France, Germany and Ukraine) upheld this initiative at a meeting held on
February 18.
However,
on February 21, Kiev disrupted the weapons withdrawal process.
Source: ITAR-TASS 25-02-2017
