Kiev forces violate ceasefire 114 times over 24 hours

Kiev forces violated the ceasefire in the responsibility zone of the Lugansk People’s Republic 114 times over the past 24 hours, the LPR Office at the Joint Centre for Control and Coordination (JCCC) said.

Strikes were delivered at the areas of Pervomaisk, Zolotoye-5, Slavyanoserbsk, the villages of Sokolniki, Nizhneye Lozovoye, Rayevka, Oboznoye, Veselogorovka, Khristovoye, Zhelobok, Sanzharovka, Zheltoye, Vesyolaya Gora, Kalinovka, Logvinovo, Privetnoye, Novokiyevka, Piionerskoye, Vesyolenkoye, the townships of Donetsky, Frunze and Kalinovo, the settlements of Metallist, Krasny Yar, Zelenaya Roscha, Golubovskoye, Molodyozhnoye, Molochniy and Berezovskoye.

The enemy used 122mm artillery, 120mm and 82mm mortars, anti-tank missile systems, SPG-9 recoilless guns, AGS-17 automatic grenade launchers, RPG-7 anti-tank rocket-propelled grenade launchers and high calibre small arms.

Kiev forces violated the ceasefire in the LPR responsibility zone 63 times on February 20, 49 times on February 19, 31 times on February 18 and 29 times on February 17.

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regularly violated the truce opening fire with large caliber artillery, mortars and tank guns which were to have been withdrawn in accordance with the Minsk agreements. *s