Donetsk, Feb 22 – DAN. Ukrainian army has launched mortar shelling on three DPR townships in the Novoazovsk district this morning, said DPR representative at the Joint Centre for Control and Coordination (JCCC) Ruslan Yakubov.

"The Ukrainian armed forces opened mortar fire on Sakhanka, Kominternovo and Leninskoye today from 9.20 a.m. till 9.30 a.m. Overall, 22 mortar shells of 120mm caliber have been fired."

Earlier reports said that Kiev forces violated ceasefire 19 times in 24 times firing 130 shells. *ot