Ukrainian servicemen on the line of contact in the Donetsk region. File photoMOSCOW, 20 Feb. Ukrainian security forces shelled three settlements of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, including 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. The Armed Forces of Ukraine fired four mines with a caliber of 120 millimeters, five mines with a caliber of 120 millimeters in the settlement of Zaitsevo Yuzhnoye, and 24 mines with a caliber of 120 millimeters in the suburb of Donetsk Spartak. concentrated most of the army on the border with the DPR and LPR and regularly fires on the militias, including with the use of prohibited equipment. Due to the threat of invasion from Ukraine, the self-proclaimed republics began the evacuation of women, children and the elderly to the Rostov region, as well as showed a general mobilization. The conflict in the east of Ukraine has been going on for eight years, during which time, according to the United Nations, more than 13,000 people have become its victims, and about 44,000 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/d23f23a654f97f81e0a135f495fe82bb.jpg» />Yesterday, 11:15 InfographicHow the situation in Donbas developedInfographicViewPosted by: Nikita Stoma
