Civilian woman killed in Pervomaisk in Ukrainian shelling - JCCC

A civilian woman has been killed in Pervomaisk as Ukrainian forces barraged the town with artillery rounds, the LPR Mission to the JCCC said.

"As a result of shelling of Pervomaisk, a woman, born in 1946, has been killed," the report reads.

On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a special military operation in Donbass to protect residents of the region from Ukrainian aggression and called on Ukrainian troops to leave the combat zone. Earlier, the Heads of the Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics, Leonid Pasechnik and Denis Pushilin, requested the Russian president to provide military assistance.

The Ukrainian government launched the so-called anti-terrorist operation against Donbass in April 2014.  The members of the Contact Group have announced ceasefire more than 20 times since the autumn of 2014. Kiev forces regularly violated the truce opening fire with large caliber artillery, mortars and tank guns which were to have been withdrawn from the contact line under the accords. *t