Lugansk People’s Republic service members have opened return fire at Kiev army positions to protect civilians, LPR People’s Militia press service officer Alexander Mazeikin said.
Earlier in the day, an LPR service member was killed as Kiev forces fire at the Veselogorovka village.
“To protect civilians and avoid new casualties among service members, our defenders that to return fire,” the LPR militia spokesman said, adding that an update on enemy losses was expected.
The members of the Contact Group have announced ceasefire more than 20 times since the autumn of 2014. Kiev forces regularly violated the truce opening fire with large caliber artillery, mortars and tank guns which were to have been withdrawn in accordance with the Minsk agreements.
The Ukrainian government launched the so-called anti-terrorist operation against Donbass in April 2014. Conflict settlement relies on the Package of Measures for the Implementation of the Minsk Agreements, signed on February 12, 2015 in the Belarussian capital by the Contact Group members and coordinated by the Normandy Four heads of states (Russia, Germany, France and Ukraine). The document provides for ceasefire and withdrawal of heavy weapons from the contact line. *i*s
