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Kiev Forces Shell Donetsk City

© AFP 2023 / ALEKSEY CHERNYSHEVUkrainian servicemen shout from SPG-9 antitank grenade launcher during the combat with the pro-Russian separatists near Avdeevka, Donetsk region, on June 18, 2015
Ukrainian servicemen shout from SPG-9 antitank grenade launcher during the combat with the pro-Russian separatists near Avdeevka, Donetsk region, on June 18, 2015 - Sputnik International
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Ukrainian forces have shelled the Kuibyshevskyi District of the city of Donetsk in the southeast of the country, the Donetsk News Agency reports citing a source in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR).

DONETSK (Sputnik) – According to the source, the shelling was conducted from a local village. At least a dozen shells were fired, but there was no immediate information on damages or casualties.

© Sputnik / Sergey Averin / Go to the mediabankA destroyed house in Donetsk
A destroyed house in Donetsk - Sputnik International
A destroyed house in Donetsk

Ukrainian servicemen shout from SPG-9 antitank grenade launcher during the combat with the pro-Russian separatists near Avdeevka, Donetsk region, on June 18, 2015 - Sputnik International
Donetsk Claims Kiev Military Attempted Attack on Village, Deaths Reported
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.

After independence referendums held in May 2014, the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics (DPR and LPR) were established.

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.

Despite the Minsk peace deal, ceasefire violations continue in Ukraine, with both sides having accused each other of conducting multiple shellings.

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