Under
fire were 28 settlements in the republic.
DONETSK,
April 1. /TASS/. Units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces violated ceasefire as
territory of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) was shelled
seven times after midnight, the republic’s command said on Saturday.
"Over
the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian Armed Forces 86 times violated the ceasefire,
including seven times after midnight on April 1," the command’s
representative told the Donetsk news agency.
Under fire
were 28 settlements in the republic. The Ukrainian side used heavy artillery of
152 and 122 mm, tank weapons, mortars, weapons of infantry fighting vehicles,
grenade launchers and small arms.
Members of
the Contact Group on the settlement in eastern Ukraine have said more than ten
times since the autumn of 2014 that an agreement had been reached on the
cessation of hostilities in the region. However, the ceasefire was disrupted on
numerous occasions, with the parties to the conflict accusing each other of
violating the truce. At a meeting on March 29, the parties once again agreed on
a ceasefire in the Donbass region as of April 1. They also discussed
disengagement of manpower and materiel near Stanitsa Luganskaya, which was on
the list of the first three security zones. Another attempt to set it up is to
be made on April 6.
Source: ITAR-TASS 01-04-2017
