Ukrainian army units delivered fire from
firearms and automatic grenade-launchers at the areas adjoining the town of
Yasinovataya as of midnight," said the republic’s operations command staff.
DONETSK, December 23. /TASS/. Pro-Kiev armed units have ignored the agreements on a New Year truce and have continued the shelling of populated localities in the self-proclaimed unrecognized Donetsk People’s Republic [DPR], the republic’s operations command staff said on Saturday.
"In
spite of the agreements on observing ceasefire, Ukrainian army units delivered
fire from firearms and automatic grenade-launchers at the areas adjoining the
town of Yasinovataya as of midnight," the Donetsk News Agency quoted a spokesman for the staff.
"The
use of mortars of different calibers by the enemy was recorded in the area of
the township of Golmosvsky near Gorlovka," it said.
Ceasefire
established for the beginning of a new academic year was formally in effect in
Donbass as of August 25. It was broadly called ‘the school truce’.
The
arrangement helped reduce tensions along the Line of Contact at first but the
intensity of shelling increased again afterwards.
On December
20, members of the Ukraine contact group in charge of defusing the armed civil
conflict in eastern Ukraine reached a yet another agreement on declaring
ceasefire. The latter took effect at 00:00 hours East European Time on December
23.
Source: ITAR-TASS 23-12-2017
