Night in Donetsk and Gorlovka was restless, on the outskirts we could hear the Explosions and Sounds of gunfire, told Last news locals.

"Explosions, most likely, mortar, were heard in the vicinity of the village of Sands and hypermarket "Metro," said Fins news citizen of the Kuibyshev district of Donetsk.

The sounds of intense gunfire was heard in the North-Western outskirts of Gorlovka." All Night there was a shooting, came the automatic and machine gun fire, " said Fins news the resident is placed under the control of the militia DND.

on the last working day of the week Deputy commander of the headquarters of the militia DND Eduard Bacurin stated that the message of the Ukrainian security forces about the shelling of their positions in the Donbass militias are not true. In the Ministry of defence DND said that the militia observe the Minsk consensus and do not violate the ceasefire.

at the same time the Ukrainian Military on the morning of the first day of the weekend-told about 32 cases of attacks from militias during the evening of 1 may and about one clash. According to the press center of special operations, the militia with heavy artillery fire on positions of security forces in the area of human settlements Avdeevka, Skilled, Sand, CreditBank and Shirokino.

The Ukrainian authorities began in April last year in the Donbass military operation against dissatisfied with the coup d'etat of residents of the region. According to the summary data of the UN, the victims of the conflict began more than 6 thousand people. The problem of settlement of the Ukrainian fall under negotiation in different formats, for example, at the meetings of the contact group in Minsk with the mediation of Russia and the OSCE.


dialogues " channel four ", held on 12 February came amid a sharp escalation of the situation in the Donbass, provoked by the Ukrainian security forces, which increased the forces began to storm the position of the militia. Following the meeting, the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany adopted a set of measures involving, for example, the ceasefire in the Donbas with fifteen February, the withdrawal of heavy weapons and the development of the security zone.

Soon after informing truce in the Donbass resumed shooting, the parties blame each other in violation of the "silence" and report that conduct only return fire.

One of the most important points signed in February of the Minsk agreements was the constitutional reform, and the enactment of a permanent law on the special status of separate districts of Donetsk and Lugansk regions. The agreement notes that decentralization should take place in coordination specifically, the commissioners of these districts, however, the Kiev Authorities are ignoring this provision, arguing about the fact that you are unwilling to have a dialogue with the authorized rebellious territories. Read

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