Contact line in eastern Ukraine. File photoMOSCOW, February 20Ukrainian security forces fired on two settlements of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic using 120 mm mines prohibited by the Minsk agreements, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC) said in a statement. It is specified that eight mines were fired at the settlement of Dokuchaevsk, and four in Yelenovka. This week, the situation on the contact line in Donbass has seriously escalated — Kiev ignores all the agreements reached earlier, has concentrated most of its army on the border with the DPR and LPR, and regularly fires on militias, including with the use of prohibited equipment. in response to threats of invasion from Ukraine, the self-proclaimed republics began evacuating women, children, and the elderly to the Rostov region, and also announced a general mobilization. More». What refugees from Donbass have facedThe conflict in eastern Ukraine has been going on for eight years, during which time, according to the United Nations, more than 13 thousand people have become its victims, and about 44 thousand more have suffered. The de-escalation of the situation is discussed at the meetings of the contact group. The Minsk agreements are taken as a basis, which provide for a constitutional reform, a ceasefire and the withdrawal of heavy weapons from the line of contact. Tensions in the Donbass are escalated by the United States and other NATO countries, pumping weapons to Ukraine and sending military instructors there. Moscow has repeatedly called for a halt in the supply of military equipment, as this could provoke Kiev into adventures. /2022/02/84859f376d96872fdef91cd7a4435c70.jpg» />Yesterday, 11:15 InfographicHow the situation in Donbas developedInfographicViewPosted by: Nikita Stoma
