Authorized the Joint Center for control and coordination (SCCC) of the ceasefire in the Donbass, informs about the shelling using artillery and mortars in the area of settlements Sands and Gaburici (Northern suburbs of Donetsk).

"currently there is a massive Bombardment in the area of the Sands, Sabunike. Fire mutual. Are used, according to unconfirmed information, mortars, artillery and small arms, " said Commissioner SCCC correspondents on Wednesday. Which side used artillery, authorized Center not shown.

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.

The next meeting of the contact group on February 12 ended with the adoption of a package of measures on execution of the Minsk agreements, 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.

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