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Russia’s illegal armed formations are spreading distorted information about the shelling of the occupiers of the Ukrainian army positions in the Shumy village area, Donetsk region, the Ukrainian side of the JCCC said.
Russia’s illegal armed formations are spreading manipulations regarding the upcoming aggravation of the situation in Donbass. This is stated in the statement from the Ukrainian side of the Joint Control and Coordination Center, which was published by the press center of the Joint Forces operation headquarters on Facebook.
“The Ukrainian side of the JCCC reports that Russian mercenaries spread manipulations and distorted information about the flagrant violation of the ceasefire by the occupiers, which took place on March 26 in the area of the Shumy settlement. According to the Ukrainian side. of the JCCC, a serious violation of the ceasefire by Russian mercenaries in the Shumy settlement area is a frank and deliberate provocation, the purpose of which is to break previously reached agreements, discredit the coordination mechanism, put pressure on the military-political leadership of our state in order to make political decisions aimed at implementing the criminal plans of the Russian Federation in Ukraine, “the statement said. …
The JCCC reported that on March 26 at 1:45 p.m. from the area of the 6-7 mine settlement (the area controlled by the occupants of Gorlovka), militants opened fire directed at the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with mortars, grenades launchers, large-caliber machine guns, small arms.
The Ukrainian side of the JCCC, through the duty officer of the OSCE special monitoring mission, sent a request for the introduction of a silence regime and received confirmation from the ORDO occupiers, but it did not work.
The shift of the Ukrainian side of the JCCC continued trying to cease fire, during March 26, nine requests for silence were sent, the statement said.
The JCCC added that through the OSCE SMM they received confirmation from the invaders on the receipt of each of the requests.
Furthermore, twice during the bombing, the illegal armed formations of the ORDO, through the next shift of the OSCE SMM, were informed about the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as a result of the bombing, but did not stop the provocations, which which indicates the invaders’ contempt for the norms of international humanitarian law and the deliberate implementation of the bombing, ”he said in the statement.
The Ukrainian side of the JCCC documented all the requests, they were registered by the OSCE SMM.
On the afternoon of March 26, in the vicinity of the village of Shumy, illegal armed formations from Russia opened fire with mortars, grenade launchers and large-caliber machine guns. The Ukrainian army responded. As a result of the bombardment of the Ukrainian positions, four soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were killed, including Lieutenant Colonel Serhiy Koval. Two more military They were injured.
The Ukrainian delegation to the trilateral contact group on conflict resolution in Donbass met for an emergency meeting. An unscheduled meeting of the TCG subgroup on security was planned for March 27, but did not take place.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on the leaders of the Normandy format countries to resolve the conflict in Donbass, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Russian President Vladimir Putin, to do everything possible to preserve the ceasefire in eastern Ukraine. He intends to speak with each of the leaders of the Normandy Four in the near future.
In 2014, Russia occupied Crimea and 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. Officially, the Russian Federation does not recognize its invasion of Ukraine, despite the facts and evidence presented by Ukraine.
Negotiations on the resolution of the conflict in Donbass are taking place in the trilateral contact group in Minsk (Ukraine, Russia, OSCE), as well as in the Normandy format, with the participation of representatives of Ukraine, France, Germany and Russia.
On July 22, 2020, the Trilateral Contact Group agreed to a full and complete ceasefire in Donbas starting at midnight on July 27. The Ukrainian side regularly reports cases of violation of the ceasefire by militants.
In early 2021, the situation in Donbass worsened. The Joint Forces Operations Headquarters has repeatedly reported that the enemy is firing snipers. On February 4, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said that “there is no longer any peace process in Donbass.” “There are pairs of snipers, mortars, bombings. The war is on,” he said.
Zelensky on February 11, during a visit to the Donetsk region, said that the escalating situation in Donbass is associated with Russia’s attempts to pressure Ukraine in the TCG negotiations.
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