Fighter of the People's Militia of the LPR at a position near the village of Slavyanoserbsk, Luhansk region. File photoLUGANSK, Feb 18The security forces again fired on the territory of the self-proclaimed Lugansk People's Republic, RIA Novosti was told at the LPR office in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC). heavy weapons,» the source said. According to him, the Ukrainian military fired at the republic-controlled settlements of Molochny and Veselenkoe, as well as at the Zelenaya Grove district in the suburbs of Lugansk, using 120 and 82 mm mortars and grenade launchers. Earlier, the People's Militia of the LPR told that the security forces had attacked two villages since the beginning of the day. The day before, the Donbass republics announced that the situation on the line of contact had escalated — Kiev was ignoring all the agreements reached earlier. At the same time, Ukraine claims that they intend to solve the problem through political and diplomatic means.Armed Forces of Ukraine fired on the south of the DPR from 122-mm artillery, the JCCC said The conflict in eastern Ukraine has lasted for almost eight years, during which time, according to the UN, more than 13 thousand people became its victims, about 44 thousand more were injured. De-escalation is being discussed at a meeting of the contact group in the Belarusian capital, based on the Minsk agreements. The document provides for a constitutional reform, a ceasefire and the withdrawal of heavy weapons from the line of contact. At the same time, the Ukrainian authorities have now concentrated most of the army on the border with the DPR and LPR and are regularly shelling the militias, including with the use of prohibited equipment. Moscow has repeatedly urged to stop pumping weapons into the region, as this could provoke Kiev into military adventures.
