This is not getting wide coverage
While the Normandy Four reaffirm the peace agreement Kiev at the behest of the American cousins is ripping it up
While the Normandy Four reaffirm the peace agreement Kiev at the behest of the American cousins is ripping it up
Ukrainian
tanks start massive shelling of militia positions - DPR Defense
Ministry
The
situation is controlled by the DPR armed forces, a ministry spokesman
said
TASS,
10
April, 2015
MOSCOW,
April 10. /TASS/. Ukraine’s armed forces have started massive tank
shelling of positions of the militia of the self-proclaimed Donetsk
People’s Republic (DPR) in the locality of Spartak from the
direction of the city of Avdeyevka (the Donetsk Region) controlled by
Ukrainian soldiers, the DPR Defense Ministry told the Donetsk News
Agency.
"Tanks
are shelling Spartak from the direction of Avdeyevka. These are
provocative actions on the part of the Ukrainian armed forces,"
the ministry said.
The
situation is controlled by the DPR armed forces, a ministry spokesman
said.
Information
on destruction, the death toll and the number of injured is being
specified, he said.
East
Ukrainian developments
Regular
talks of the participants of the Trilateral Contact Group on east
Ukrainian settlement comprising representatives of Russia, Ukraine
and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)
were held in the Belarusian capital Minsk on February 10-12. Normandy
Four (Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany) leaders also discussed the
Ukrainian issue in Minsk then.
A
13-point Package of Measures on implementation of the September Minsk
agreements was adopted at those talks.
The
package in particular included an agreement on cessation of fire from
February 15, withdrawal of heavy armaments, as well as measures on
long-term political settlement of the situation in Ukraine, including
enforcement of a special self-rule status for certain districts of
the Donetsk and Lugansk regions.
Clashes
between Ukrainian troops and local militias in the Donetsk and
Lugansk regions during Kiev’s military operation, conducted since
mid-April 2014, to regain control over parts of the breakaway
territories, which call themselves the Donetsk and Lugansk People's
republics, have left thousands dead and forced hundreds of thousands
of people to flee Ukraine’s embattled east.
The
parties to the Ukrainian conflict mediated by the OSCE agreed on a
ceasefire at talks on September 5, 2014 in Minsk two days after
Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed his plan to settle the
situation in the east of Ukraine. The ceasefire has reportedly been
numerously violated since.
Ukraine’s
parliament on September 16, 2014 adopted the law on a special
self-rule status for certain districts in the Donetsk and Lugansk
regions for three years. The law took effect October 18, 2014 but was
then repealed by Kiev.
The
Trilateral Contact Group adopted a memorandum on September 19, 2014
in Minsk. The document outlined the parameters for the implementation
of commitments on the ceasefire in Ukraine laid down in the Minsk
Protocol of September 5, 2014.
The
nine-point memorandum in particular envisioned a ban on the use of
all armaments and withdrawal of weapons with the calibers of over 100
millimeters to a distance of 15 kilometers from the contact line from
each side. The OSCE was tasked with controlling the implementation of
memorandum provisions.
The
Contact Group’s meetings in late December 2014 and on January 31,
2015 did not bring major results and the Group had to meet again in
February 2015.
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