Ukrainian serviceman on the line of contact in the Luhansk regionLUHANSK, Feb 17 Republic is blocking possible entry routes for Ukrainian sabotage groups in the May Day direction, Yan Leshchenko, head of the defense department of the republic, told reporters. Earlier, the LPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire reported that Ukrainian security forces have been conducting massive shelling of the territory of the republic since Thursday morning. 
Russia is raising the stakes on the issue of recognizing the LPR and the DPR, Zelensky said»According to the received radio intercepts, the enemy is trying to drop a sabotage group in the Pervomaisky direction. Currently time, measures are being taken to block possible approaches to this area,» the statement said. silt Leshchenko. In the summer of 2020, additional measures to ensure a truce came into force in the Donbass. These measures imply a complete ban on firing, placing weapons in and near populated areas, offensive and reconnaissance and sabotage operations. The engineering equipment of positions and the use of drones by the parties to the conflict near the line of contact are also prohibited. In addition, the measures provide for disciplinary liability for violation of the ceasefire regime. Ceasefire orders containing measures to maintain it must remain in effect until the conflict is fully resolved. US Ambassador to the UN
