Donetsk, Mar 15 – DAN. Ukrainian forces violated the ceasefire 21 times over the past 24 hours, the DPR mission to the Joint Centre for Control and Coordination (JCCC) said.

"Over the past 24 hours, the number of registered violations was 21, while 102 rounds were fired".

Zaitsevo, Shakhta Gagarina, Yakovlevka, Naberezhnoye, Sosnovskoye, Leninskoye, Zaitchenko, Sakhanka and Kominternovo came under grenade launcher and small arms fire.

An explosion was heard at Ukrainian positions in Donbass, which is a violation of the Additional Measures.

In the previous reporting period, four violations were registered.

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