LUGANSK, September 24 (Lugansk Media Centre) - Kiev forces shelled the Chernukhino township in the Perevalsky district with Giatsint-B 152mm guns, the Lugansk People’s Republic Office at the Joint Centre for Control and Coordination said.
On Tuesday morning, Kiev army units targeted Chernukhino with large calibre artillery damaging a power transmission line and causing a blackout in the settlement.
LPR representatives at the JCCC went to the scene where they found “many craters produced by detonations of 152mm artillery rounds.”
“In the course of analysis of expended ordnance and resulting damage it was ascertained that Chernukhino was shelled with A36 Giatsint-B guns, 152mm. Fragments of a 152mm high explosive 2A36 Giatsint-B shell were found in the impact area,” the report said.
The LPR Office added that the Ukrainian army strike damaged a power transmission line living without electricity 462 residents of Chernukhino and Sofiyevka, Perevalsky district.
There were no civilian casualties, the JCCC said.
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regularly violated the truce opening fire with large calibre artillery, mortars and tank guns which were to have been withdrawn in accordance with the Minsk agreements.
The Package of Measures for the Implementation of the Minsk Agreements was adopted by the Contact Group on Ukraine on February 12, 2015 and supported by member states of the Normandy Four (Germany, Russia, Ukraine and France). The UN Security Council approved the document by Resolution 2202 and called upon all the sides to ensure full implementation of the Package of Measures.
The document provides for comprehensive ceasefire, withdrawal of all heavy weapons from the contact line, starting a dialog on reconstruction of social and economic ties between Kiev and Donbass. It also envisages carrying out constitutional reform in Ukraine providing for decentralization and adopting permanent legislation on a special status of certain areas of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions.
