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Donetsk 6 houses destroyed in shelling by Ukraine’s military

Besides, under the shelling got a depot at the Donetsk-Severny railway station, where several carriages caught fire

MOSCOW, July 12. /TASS/. Kiev’s military shelled at night the Kiev district in Ukraine’s Donetsk, where six houses were damaged, the city’s administration told the Donetsk News Agency on Sunday.

"At night from the 11th to the 12th of July, Ukraine’s Armed Forces shelled heavily the Kiev district," the administration said.

Besides, under the shelling got a depot at the Donetsk-Severny railway station, where several carriages caught fire. The damage is being estimated now.

The ceasefire regime in Donbass was announced officially on February 15.

Regular talks of the participants in the Trilateral Contact Group on the east Ukrainian settlement comprising representatives of Russia, Ukraine and the Organisation for Security and Co-Operation in Europe (OSCE) were held in the Belarusian capital city of Minsk on February 10-12. Talks of the Normandy Four (Russia, Germany, France, and Ukraine) leaders on the Ukrainian issue also ended February 12 in Minsk.

A 13-point Package of Measures on implementation of the September 2014 Minsk agreements was adopted at the February talks.

The package in particular included an agreement on cessation of fire from February 15, withdrawal of heavy armaments, as well as measures on long-term political settlement of the situation in Ukraine, including enforcement of a special self-rule status for certain districts of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions. The ceasefire has been repeatedly violated since.