KIEV (Sputnik) – According to a Facebook statement posted by the press center of Kiev’s military operation in Donbass on Saturday, the militants became "significantly more active at dusk [on Friday]."
Kiev launched a special military operation in Ukraine’s southeast in April 2014, after local residents refused to recognize the new Ukrainian authorities, which came to power as a result of a coup.
In February 2015, a peace agreement was signed between Ukraine’s conflicting sides in the Belarusian capital, Minsk. The deal stipulates a full ceasefire, a weapons withdrawal from the line of contact in eastern Ukraine, an all-for-all prisoner exchange and constitutional reforms, which would give a special status to the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics in the southeast.
Russia’s permanent representative to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin told the UN Security Council on Thursday that only 9 percent of the weapons declared by the Ukrainian forces remain at warehouses. According to Churkin, most of the weapons have been spotted on the frontlines in Donbas, despite the Minsk agreement.
