DONETSK (Sputnik) — Armed militia in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic in eastern Ukraine has registered more than 400 artillery attacks by Kiev-led forces since February 12 in violation of Minsk peace accords, a senior DPR military commander said Tuesday.
"Since the signing of peace accords in Minsk on February 12, including full ceasefire, the total number of targeted artillery attacks on our positions by Kiev-led forces has long exceeded 400," Eduard Basurin, deputy commander of the DPR militia, told a news briefing in Donetsk.
Basurin added that the attacks lead to numerous injuries and claim lives of both militia and civilians.
After repeated breaches of a previous ceasefire agreement, signed last September, Ukraine’s warring sides agreed upon a new truce deal in February 12.
The new agreement was outlined during lengthy talks between the leaders of Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany, who met in Minsk, Belarus, in a bid to find a solution to the Ukraine conflict.
