In the area of environmental protection spotted the sniper fire

Photo: Operation Ob Gnani forces / Joint Forces Operation / Facebook

January 25 at the Donbass, was wounded one soldier of the Armed forces of Ukraine. This in 19.30 informed the press centre of the headquarters operations of joint forces (EP) in Facebook.

“During the current day armed forces of the Russian Federation seven times violated the ceasefire. …As a result of enemy shelling, one soldier of the United forces were injured,” – said in the message.

According to the headquarters of CEO, the position of APU militants fired “from the Minsk agreements prohibited the 120-mm mortars and grenade launchers of various systems, heavy machine guns and other small arms”.

“It is also noted the work of the sniper couples,” the report says.

In 2014, immediately after the annexation of Crimea, in Eastern Ukraine, Russia has begun armed aggression. Fighting underway between Ukraine’s Armed forces on the one hand, and the Russian army and Russian-backed militants, who control part of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, on the other. Officially, Russia does not recognize its invasion of Ukraine, despite Ukraine presented the facts and evidence.

9 Dec 2019, in Paris the first three years of the summit of leaders of “Norman Quartet” – Ukraine, France, Germany and Russia on the settlement of the situation in the Donbass. The parties inter alia agreed to the end of the year to agree on a complete ceasefire.

The Minister of foreign Affairs of Ukraine Vadim Pristayko said that the participants of the tripartite contact group during the negotiations on 18 December failed to agree a new truce and agreed to extend the cease-fire, announced in July.