In the conflict area in the There were new attacks in eastern Ukraine on Sunday night. The insurgents in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions announced in the morning that they had been there since midnight repeatedly shelled villages been. The Ukrainian army also listed several violations of the current ceasefire in the morning. The respective data could not be verified independently. Nothing was initially known about victims. The military had already spoken of two soldiers killed on Saturday.
According to international observers, the number of ceasefire violations is rising massively. In the Luhansk region, 975 violations were found, including 860 explosions, according to a statement by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) on Sunday night. 591 violations were reported for the Donetsk region, including 535 explosions. These figures referred to the situation on Friday.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) also complained that at least two pumping stations in the Donetsk region had failed due to shelling in the past few days. These supplied more than a million people with drinking water. “We are very concerned about developments in eastern Ukraine‘ said Florence Gillette, head of the ICRC delegation in Ukraine. She appealed to the protection of the population during military operations.
In the eastern Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, not far from the Russian border, government troops equipped by the West have been fighting Russian-backed separatists since 2014. According to UN estimates, more than 14,000 people have already been killed, mostly in the separatist area. A peace plan from 2015 mediated by Franco-German mediation is not implemented.