The self-proclaimed
Donetsk People's Republic urged international organizations to condemn the
actions of Ukrainian forces.
DONETSK, October 22.
/TASS/. Four servicemen of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR)
were killed over the past week in shellings by Ukrainian forces, Daniil
Bezsonov, a spokesman for the DPR’s defense ministry, said on Monday.
"Three our
servicemen were killed on Sunday in the village of Leninskoye in the south of
DPR as a result of shellings by Ukrainian forces. We offer our condolences to
their families and call on international organizations, first of all, the
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), to resolutely
condemn the Ukrainian side’s criminal actions," the Donetsk News Agency
quoted him as saying.
One more serviceman
was killed by a Ukrainian sniper in the village of Kominternovo.
Earlier in the day,
Ruslan Yakobov, who heads the DPR’s mission to the Joint Center for Control and
Coordination (JCCC), said that as many as 30 ceasefire violations by Ukrainian
troops had been reported during the past 24 hours.
The
"back-to-school" ceasefire came into force in Donbass from midnight
August 29. It was agreed upon by the Trilateral Contact Group on the settlement
of the conflict in eastern Ukraine on August 22, ahead of a new academic year.
The ceasefire was violated three hours after it came into effect as Ukrainian
forces shelled Gorlovka’s suburbs.
Since the outbreak of
the conflict in Donbass, the parties have agreed on more than 20 ceasefires.
The longest one of them was reported in 2016 when the ceasefire held for six
consecutive weeks. However, all efforts to establish lasting ceasefire have
been failing so far.
Source: ITAR-TASS
23-10-2018
