Fighting involving heavy equipment near Donetsk are gross failures of the ceasefire and the Minsk agreements, said a source in the German government.

"It is a violation of the Minsk agreements, a flagrant violation of the ceasefire. The position of the dividing line now causes concern, "said the source RIA" Novosti ". Recall, on Wednesday the official representative of the presidential administration of Ukraine on problems of special operations in the Donbass Andriy Lysenko and the Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk told about the offensive against militia in the area of Mariinka near Donetsk. However, the militia said that the Military were the first to attempt a breakthrough in the area of Marinci. Zam. the force commander of the militia DND Eduard Baturin said that the shelling from the Ukrainian security forces were a cover for transporting tanks. In addition, he did not rule out that the attack in Marinka may be a red herring in front of a large-scale provocations in Luhansk region. Thursday special OSCE monitoring mission in Ukraine has prepared and distributed a report on the latest fighting in the area of Marinka. The document States that from Tuesday evening SMM watched from his paragraph 14 kilometres from Marinka movement of a large number of heavy weapons DNR. It was noted that on Wednesday evening as Authorized security forces and DND confirmed to the SMM that Marinka remains under the control of Kiev.

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