Head of the Donetsk Petrov region Maxim Zhukovsky said
15 electricity substations remain idle after the shelling.
DONETSK, March 19. /TASS/. The Ukrainian Armed Forces on Saturday evening and Sunday morning shelled Yasinovataya, Zaitsevo north of Gorlovka, Luganskoye, Signalnoye and Elenovka, the local authorities told the Donetsk News Agency on Sunday.
DONETSK, March 19. /TASS/. The Ukrainian Armed Forces on Saturday evening and Sunday morning shelled Yasinovataya, Zaitsevo north of Gorlovka, Luganskoye, Signalnoye and Elenovka, the local authorities told the Donetsk News Agency on Sunday.
"Last
night, the Ukrainian military were shelling heavily from mortars suburbs of
Yasinovataya, and the roof of the local chlorine station was damaged,"
Yasinovataya’s official said.
On
Sunday morning, the military targeted mass shelling on Zaitsevo.
"In
the morning, at 6:30 we were shelled, one house damaged in Zaitsevo,"
acting head Ivan Prikhodko said, adding under fire was also Dolomitnoye, where
shells destroyed two houses.
Head
of the Donetsk Petrov region Maxim Zhukovsky said 15 electricity substations
remain idle after the shelling. "Luganskoye and Signalnoye are in
blackout, repairing has begun," he said. Without electricity also remain
settlements Elenovka and Naberezhnoye in the south of the self-proclaimed Donetsk
People’s Republic (DPR).
Since
the autumn of 2014, members of the Contact Group on settling the situation in
eastern Ukraine have announced ceasefires in Donbass more than ten times.
However, the Ukrainian military have been repeatedly violating ceasefires,
particularly using large caliber guns, mortars and tanks that should be
withdrawn from the line of contact in accordance with the Minsk agreements.
At
the recent meeting of the Contact Group, held on March 1, the parties agreed to
resume the weapons withdrawal process on March 7. However, the Ukrainian
military refused to begin withdrawal under pretext of insecurity in the region.
Source:
ITAR-TASS 19-03-2017
