The Ukrainian troops have violated the ceasefire in Donbas as many as 33 times firing more than 100 mines and shells on the territory of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) over the past 24 hours, a representative of the DPR in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination (JCCC) said on Monday
DONETSK (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 18th February, 2019) The Ukrainian troops have violated the ceasefire in Donbas as many as 33 times firing more than 100 mines and shells on the territory of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) over the past 24 hours, a representative of the DPR in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination (JCCC) said on Monday.
"Over the past day, there were a total of 33 violations by the Ukrainian Armed Forces," the DPR representative said.
The latest ceasefire agreement entered into force in Donbas on December 29, 2018, ahead of the New Year's holidays.
The warring parties are also bound by another major ceasefire deal, which was signed in the Belarusian capital in 2015 under the mediation of France, Germany and Russia, members of the so-called Normandy Four group. Both the Donbas self-proclaimed republics and Kiev regularly accuse each other of ceasefire violations.
The DPR and the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) have been engaged in an armed conflict with Kiev for several years. The war erupted after Donetsk and Luhansk refused to recognize the new Ukrainian authorities who came to power in 2014.
