DONETSK, January 31. /TASS/. One civilian was injured as the armed forces of Ukraine shelled the territory of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), Donesk’s mission to the Joint Center for Control and Coordination (JCCC) of the ceasefire said on Sunday.
"The military units of Ukraine are conducting massive shelling of Donetsk’s southeastern outskirts. According to initial reports, a civilian resident of Aleksandrovka was injured," the Donetsk News Agency quoted the mission as saying in a statement.
The Contact Group on the settlement of the situation in eastern Ukraine, which held a videoconference meeting on July 22, agreed additional measures to control the ceasefire along the contact line in Donbass that came in force from July 27. The agreement came a year after the so-called indefinite ceasefire was declared by the parties on July 21, 2019 following more than 20 futile attempts to stop hostilities. Under the agreement, the parties to the conflict are banned to stage offensive and reconnaissance operations, use any types of drones, open fire, including from sniper weapons, and deploy heavy weapons in populated localities and addition engineering equipment at their positions. One of the key provisions is the use of disciplinary measures for ceasefire violations, while retaliatory fire is allowed only if directly ordered by the command.