The self-proclaimed LNR transferred to the joint center for control and coordination of ceasefire and stabilization of the situation (SCCC) the provocations of Ukrainian forces, said Deputy chief of a staff corps of the people's militia LNR Colonel Igor Yashchenko.

In the afternoon on the last working day of the week, According to Yashchenko, tank APU took a firing position at 200-300 metres from the demarcation line of the parties and returned to their original positions only at night, thereby provoking the militia.

"data on this fact transferred to the coordination group "Lugansk" from SCCC to bring to the Ukrainian side in order to avoid provocations ", - quotes Yashchenko Lugansk information center.

first Deputy head of the headquarters of the militia DND Eduard Baturin said that the Ukrainian Military for the first time in fifteen days used heavy weapons caliber 152 mm. In his vision, the use of prohibited Minsk-2 heavy weapons is an attempt to provoke the army DND to return fire before the meeting of the contact group in Minsk, which will go on 22 September.

The Ukrainian authorities in April last year began military action against the self-proclaimed LNR and DND. According to the summary data of the UN, the victims of the conflict began about 7, 9 thousand people. The settlement of the situation in the Donbass is discussed, as well as among them, during meetings in Minsk contact group, which since September of last year already took 3 of the document governing the steps to de-escalate the conflict.

The first of September in the Donbass started another ceasefire, which the parties to the conflict agreed in the last meeting of the contact group on settling the situation in Ukraine, which took place on August 26 in Minsk.

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