Donetsk, Sep 23 - DAN. A Donetsk People’s Republic militiaman was wounded in sniper fire delivered from the Ukrainian side, the DPR Office at the Joint Centre for Control and Coordination (JCCC) reported on Wednesday.

“As a result of sniper fire delivered by Ukrainian armed formations at the Dzerzhinskoye village, a DPR militiaman suffered a gunshot wound to the stomach,” the report said. “The wounded man was rushed to Novoazovsk Central District Hospital.”

Ukrainian sniper fire in the Dzerzhinskoye village area in southern DPR was reported earlier in the day.

The package of tighter ceasefire control measures came into force in Donbass on July 27, 2020. The document bans the use of any weapons, deployment of hardware, special operations, engineer works and unmanned aerial vehicles flights.*jk