The shelling of Slavyansk and Kramatorsk, which continued in the afternoon, stopped, said Last news locals.
However, from time to time in cities heard shots from firearms. For example, in Kramatorsk shots are heard in the area of Feed mill.
The twentieth of June 22. 00 local time (23: 00 GMT) entered into force announced by the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko ceasefire.
numerous anti-government protests were started in the South-Eastern regions of Ukraine at the end of February 2014. It has been the response of local citizens at the forcible change of power in the country and the subsequent attempt to cancel the Verkhovna Rada of the law, giving the Russian language regional status. The center of confrontation between Pro-Russian-minded people with the government in Kiev has become the Donbass. About that, How is the conflict in the South-East of Ukraine.
Nearly two weeks after the official ceremony of taking office Peter Poroshenko, the fighting in Donetsk oblast has spread to the entire region. If earlier the main " hot spot " was Slavyansk, now the front reports come from all corners of the self-proclaimed Donetsk national Republic: from Mariupol, Kramatorsk, Gorlivka, and other. As was reported a week ago the Ministry of health of Ukraine, among the dead - more than 200 civil, and among them women and children.
Political journalist Mikhail Rostovsky: once in a neighbouring country began a civil war, political leaders in Kiev and in the truth largely lost surveillance over the situation. But lost are They able to stop violent actions on the Ukrainian South-East? I am convinced that it is not. To stop the fratricidal carnage enough to give the order for temporary suspension of the so-called anti-terrorist operation.