Donetsk, Aug 3 – DAN. The DPR Mission to the JCCC has recorded an explosion at Ukrainian positions outside Novotroitskoye south of Donetsk on Monday morning.

"At 11.23 a.m. an explosion occurred at the positions of the Ukrainian armed formations outside Novotroitskoye," the report reads.

At 11.23 a.m. and 11.34 a.m. observers reported engineer activity close to Ukrainian positions outside Opytnoye north of Donetsk and Starognatovka south of Donetsk.

A checkpoint where humanitarian corridor has reopened today is located in Novotroitskoye.

Ukrainian armed formations violated the Additional Measures to Strengthen the Ceasefire four times over the past 24 hours. The Additional Measures to Strengthen the Ceasefire were signed at the Contact Group meeting on July 22 to reinforce and control the indefinite ceasefire in effect since July 21, 2019, the latest in the series of more than 20 reconfirmation and announcements of the “silence regime”. The package came into effect on July 27. *ot*pp