Donetsk, Mar 12 – DAN. Kiev forces opened fire on Vodyanoye and Sakhanka villages in southern DPR this evening, said DPR representative at the Joint Centre for Control and Coordination (JCCC) Ruslan Yakubov.

"At 6 p.m. Ukrainian armed forces opened fire on Vodyanoye and Sakhanka villages, firing two 82mm mortar rounds and also using small arms and small arms of large caliber."

Earlier reports said the Zaitsevo village came under fire opened from small arms and small arms of large caliber.

The Contact Group has brokered an "absolute ceasefire" in Donbass in effect from midnight March 5. The DPR said it is fully committed to the agreement and ready to silence guns. *ot