Ukrainian forces violate ceasefire regime 6 times at line of contact — DPR

Ukrainian forces have violated ceasefire regime six times, the defense ministry of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic [DPR] reported on Saturday.

“The Ukrainian forces violated ceasefire regime six times,” the report said. Naberezhnoye settlement in Novoazovsk region, and Gorlovka came under fires.

At the meeting of the Contact Group in Minsk on August 26, the participants confirmed their plans to ensure ceasefire in Donbass from September 1. The Minsk accords signed on February 12, after negotiations in the so-called “Normandy format”, envisage ceasefire, weaponry withdrawal, prisoner exchange, local election in Donbass, constitutional reform in Ukraine.