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On September 6, as a result of the bombing of militants in the Donbas, one Ukrainian soldier was killed and another wounded. Russia’s President Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia is “concerned” about the escalating situation in Donbass.
Russia insists on maintaining the ceasefire, said the press secretary of the president of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Peskov, after the killing of a Ukrainian soldier by militants in Donbass, writes TASS.
The Russian Federation is “concerned” by the growing tension in the line of contact, “has done and will do” everything possible to reduce the escalation, said Peskov, who called the Russian Federation a “mediating country” in the conflict.
In 2014, immediately after the annexation of Crimea, Russia launched an armed aggression in eastern Ukraine. The fighting is between the Armed Forces of Ukraine, on the one hand, and the Russian army and the Russian-backed militants who control parts of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, on the other. The Russian Federation does not officially recognize its invasion of Ukraine, despite the facts and evidence presented by Ukraine.
On July 22, 2020, the trilateral contact group agreed to a full and complete ceasefire in Donbas starting at midnight on July 27. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy noted that the Joint Forces in Donbass would respond to enemy bombardments even after the ceasefire went into effect.
According to the Chief of the General Staff – Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Ruslan Khomchak, the ceasefire was carried out on both sides and the isolated cases of its violation were not systemic.
On 6 September, as a result of the shelling by illegal armed formations of the Russian Federation of positions of units of the Joint Forces near Prychepilovka, Lugansk region, a soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine received injuries incompatible with life . This is the first loss of the Armed Forces since the start of the ceasefire.
Another soldier was injured as a result of a targeted bombardment in the Krasnogorivka area of the Donetsk region, two, in the explosion of an unknown device. Also on September 6, it was learned of the death of two soldiers in a minefield during the evacuation of the fire.
On the same day, an extraordinary meeting of the TCG was held, in which the Ukrainian delegation described the incident as “separate provocations”. The Presidency demanded that Russia “intervene in the situation and influence the provocative behavior” of the militants. relava from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmitry Kuleba started an urgent phone conversation with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
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