Ukrainian forces used
152mm howitzers, which are supposed to be withdrawn from the contact line in
Donbass in accordance with the Minsk Agreements.
DONETSK, November 9.
/TASS/. Ukrainian troops have used 152mm howitzers, which are supposed to be
withdrawn to a considerable distance from the contact line in Donbass, to shell
Donetsk’s northern suburb, a spokesman for the mission of the self-proclaimed
Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) to the Joint Center for Control and
Coordination (JCCC) said on Friday.
"At 4.30pm local
time today, Ukrainian troops fired four 152mm howitzer shells from the
settlement of Peski to the area of the Volvo Center in Donetsk. They also used
firearms," the Donetsk News Agency quoted him as saying.
Apart from that, the
villages of Spartak and Zhabichevo near Donetsk also came under mortar shelling
by Ukrainian troops on Friday evening.
The so-called
back-to-school ceasefire came into force in Donbass from midnight August 29. It
was agreed 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 troops shelled
Gorlovka’s suburbs.
Since the outbreak of
the conflict in Donbass, the parties have agreed on more than 20 ceasefires.
The longest one was reported in 2016 when the ceasefire was upheld for six
weeks in a row. However, all the efforts to establish lasting ceasefire have
been failing so far.
Source: ITAR-TASS
10-11-2018
