(ANSA) – ROME, FEBRUARY 18 – The Ukrainian Defense Ministry announced today that it has recorded 60 violations of the ceasefire by pro-Russian separatists in the Donbas region in the last 24 hours. One soldier was injured, the ministry added, according to the Guardian.
The Ukrainian army announced late yesterday that it was not planning an offensive against the positions of pro-Russian separatists in the east of the country, nor a bombing of the civilian population, stressing that it wanted to “strictly respect the Minsk agreements and the rules of international humanitarian law “. “Our actions are purely defensive,” said Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Ukrainian Lieutenant General Valery Zaluzhny.
Meanwhile, the pro-Russian separatists of the self-proclaimed rebel republic of Luhansk, in eastern Ukraine, have accused the government forces of attacking them again this morning with mortars: the Russian news agency Interfax reports. Pro-Russian separatists reported 27 violations of the ceasefire by the Ukrainian army.
Yesterday, observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) reported 189 violations of the ceasefire in the eastern Donetsk region, up from 24 the previous day. In the nearby Lugansk region, OSCE observers counted 402 violations compared to 129 on Wednesday. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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