Ukrainian
security forces continue to place weapons and military equipment along the
contact line in Donbass, which is prohibited by the Minsk agreements, Lugansk
People’s Republic (LPR) militia spokesman Andrei Marochko said Saturday.
by THE DURAN
August
20, 2017, 20:41
LUGANSK
(Sputnik)
LPR
spokesman Andrei Marochko added:
“The
Ukrainian side continues to violate the Minsk agreements in respect of the
placement of banned weapons. So, in the area of Novotoshkivske settlement, the
enemy has placed positions of two mortar batteries, as well as a caponier with
an infantry fighting vehicle of the 58th brigade of the Ukrainian forces.”
He
stressed that the deployment of the banned weapons near the line of contact by
the Ukrainian side was continuously recorded in reports by Organization for
Security and Co-operation in Europe Special Monitoring Mission (OSCE SMM)
international observers.
Marochko
note:
“On
August 17, an SMM unmanned aerial vehicle found three 122mm self-propelled
howitzers 2S1 Gvozdika, deployed on the northwestern outskirts of Stanytsia
Luhanska in violation of the relevant withdrawal lines.”
The
military conflict in Ukraine erupted in 2014 after the self-proclaimed east
Ukrainian republics refused to recognize the new Ukrainian government that came
to power in what they perceived to be a coup. The ceasefire agreement was
reached in Minsk in 2015, brokered by the leaders of the Normandy Four group,
but the situation has remained tense.
On
June 21, a trilateral contact group, composed of Russian, Ukrainian and OSCE
mediators, agreed to impose a ceasefire in Ukraine’s eastern regions during the
summer harvest, which would last from June 24 to August 31. However, the
ceasefire failed to hold with both sides of the conflict continuing to blame
each other of violations.
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