DPR head Denis
Pushilin called on observers working in the conflict zone to intervene without
delay to ensure Ukraine honors its obligations.
DONETSK, August 9.
/TASS/. The self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) is prepared to
provide tit-for-tat response to the Ukrainian armed forces' aggression if
ceasefire violations in the Donbass region persist, DPR head Denis Pushilin
said on Friday.
"Despite the
agreements reached with the participation of Kiev’s envoys, 120mm shells were
fired at the settlement of Kominternovo. [The Ukrainian army] used grenade
launchers and small arms and shelled the center of the settlement with infantry
fighting vehicles. If the Kiev authorities continue to break its promises, a
tit-for-tat response will be provided to their actions," the Donetsk News
Agency quotes Pushilin as saying.
He also called on
observers working in the conflict zone to intervene without delay to ensure
Ukraine honors its obligations.
"We do not give
in to provocations. The Kiev authorities have shown once again their inability
to negotiate and their lack of desire to maintain a peaceful dialogue,"
Pushilin said in a statement on the situation in the Donbass region.
On July 17, members
of the Contact Group on the settlement in eastern Ukraine declared an
indefinite ceasefire in Donbass starting on July 21. The agreement, in
particular, includes the parties’ obligations to take additional measures to
ensure the truce, and that is what the Donbass republics had called for.
However, the Ukrainian army violated the new ceasefire on the very first day,
shelling the Novaya Tavriya inhabited community located in the south of the
DPR.
Source: ITAR-TASS
10-08-2019
