Since the fall of 2014, participants in the
Contact Group on East Ukrainian settlement have announced about a dozen of
ceasefire deals.
DONETSK,
October 14. /TASS/. Ukraine’s Armed Forces over the past 24 hours violated
ceasefire 35 times as they fired on 16 compounds in the self-proclaimed Donetsk
People’s Republic (DPR), the republic’s command said on Saturday.
"Over
the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian Armed Forces 35 times violated ceasefire as
they opened fire on 16 compounds in the republic," the Donetsk news agency
quoted the command’s representative as saying.
The
military used "tanks, mortars, weapons of infantry fighting vehicles,
armored vehicles, grenade launchers and small arms," the command said.
Since the
fall of 2014, participants in the Contact Group on East Ukrainian settlement
have announced about a dozen of ceasefire deals. On June 24, the so-called "harvest
ceasefire" came into effect - it was expected to hold until the end of
August. However, shelling incidents continued to happen.
On August
23, the Contact Group members declared a "back-to-school" ceasefire
in Donbass starting from August 25. However, on that very day, defense
authorities of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk Republics reported that
their territories had come under shelling from positions of the Ukrainian
troops. Kiev, in turn, has been accusing the republics of violating the ceasefire.
Source: ITAR-TASS 14-10-2017
