MOSCOW, October 7. /TASS/. Kiev has been staging all sorts of provocations for disrupting the peace process in the southeast of Ukraine, Russian lawmaker Sergey Zheleznyak told the lower house of parliament on Tuesday.

“Despite the armistice, which is in effect in Ukraine in accordance with the Minsk agreements, the land of Novorossiya sees daily shellings with multiple rocket launchers and heavy artillery and ever more civilian deaths,” Zheleznyak said.

“The regime in Kiev has been staging all sorts of provocations to disrupt the ongoing peace process,” he added. “It is committing ever new crimes to cover up its responsibility for the heinous crimes committed earlier.”

“Unable to attain victory on the battlefield it has turned all firepower against innocent civilians, children and elderly people. We are witnesses to mass fatalities, as a matter of fact, crimes against humanity.