Donetsk, Apr 28 – DAN. Kiev forces violated the ceasefire 289 times over the past week, firing 1,097 artillery and mortar rounds at DPR territory, DPR Operations Command deputy commander Eduard Basurin said on Friday.
“The enemy violated the ceasefire 287 times over the past week firing 1,097 artillery, mortar and tank gun rounds at DPR with weapons prohibited by the Minsk agreements,” Basurin said.
According to DPR Operations Command, 23 DPR settlements came under fire over the past week.
These are Donetsk’s Petrovskiy and Kirovskiy districts and city airport area, Makeyevka, Gorlovka and Zaitsevo, Shirokaya Balka, Zheleznaya Balka and Dolomitnoye villages, Yasinovataya and its Spartak, Vasilyevka, Veseloye, Zhabichevo and Krutaya Balka neighbourhoods, Dokuchayesk and Yasnoye village, and Kominternovo, Sosnovskoye, Sakhanka, Bezymennoye, Zaichenko, Dzerzhinskoye and Kulikovo villages in DPR south.
“Seventeen houses sustained damage in these settlements,” Basurin said.
On Friday morning, DPR Operations Command said Kiev forces violated the ceasefire 53 times over the past 24 hours. *jk