Seven houses in the Nikolayevka village were damaged in shelling by Ukrainian forces, the Lugansk People’s Republic Office at the Joint Centre for Control and Coordination (JCCC) reported.
LPR Office representatives recorded the aftermath of the strike delivered at Nikolayevka on November 29.
“On November 29, 2021 Ukrainian armed formations, in gross violation of international humanitarian law, delivered aimed fire with 122mm artillery at houses in Nikolayevka damaging seven houses,” the report said.
The LPR Office at the JCCC said that the strike had damaged windows, balconies, walls, roofs and outbuildings of apartment houses #3, 4, 5A, 7, 10, 13, and 14 in the Yubileiny neighbourhood.
There were no civilian casualties; a boy, aged 10 and a seven-year-old girl narrowly missed getting hurt in the worst-hit building #5,” the LPR Office said. “An examination of ammunition fragments and damage at the scene showed that strike had been delivered with 122mm artillery from the Nizhnyaya Olkhovka area controlled by the Ukrainian army's 79th Separate Air Assault Brigade.”
The enemy used high explosive fragmentation 122mm shells for D-30 and 2C1 “Gvozdika” howitzers, it added.
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regularly violated the truce opening fire with large caliber artillery, mortars and tank guns which were to have been withdrawn in accordance with the Minsk agreements.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
