Record 1,500 ceasefire violations in east Ukraine: Report

In a report covering attacks on Friday, its monitors recorded 591 breaches in Donetsk and 975 violations in neighbouring Lugansk, two regions partly held by Russian-backed separatists.
A Strela-10 anti-aircraft missile system of the Ukrainian Armed Forces fires during anti-aircraft military drills in Volyn Region, Ukraine.
Published on Feb 20, 2022 01:44 AM IST Record 1,500 ceasefire violations in east Ukraine: Report
A Strela-10
anti-aircraft
missile system of
the Ukrainian
Armed Forces
fires during
anti-aircraft
military drills in
Volyn Region,
Ukraine. 
AFP |
Observers from the OSCE European security body on Saturday reported more than 1,500 ceasefire violations in east Ukraine in a single day, the highest number this year.
In a report covering attacks on Friday, its monitors recorded 591 breaches in Donetsk and 975 violations in neighbouring Lugansk, two regions partly held by Russian-backed separatists.
A map breaking down the breaches showed the heaviest fighting now in the northwestern section of the Lugansk region, about 20 kilometres (12 miles) southeast of the government-held city of Severodonetsk.
The shelling in the eight-year conflict spiked sharply this week, as fears mount that Russia is paving the way for an invasion of Ukraine designed to reverse its pro-Western course.
Ukraine's Interior Minister Denys Monastyrskiy experienced the clashes first-hand Saturday, ducking for cover as mortar shells fell within a few hundred metres of him while he toured the frontline with reporters.
https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/record-1-500-ceasefire-violations-in-east-ukraine-report-101645300433793.html

there will be updating as the conflict unfold.

Let's Go. I hope zelenskys won't run like Afghanistan former president.
Please update us with military casualties.
Rebels 2 Ukraine 0
For now.
We know that the casualty figures are higher. But let's keep it as per official figures.

Righteousness your food don DON...

Update
Putin accuses Ukraine of 'provocations'
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Russian President Vladimir Putin blamed Ukrainian ‘provocations’ for the escalation of the current situation in the Donbas in a call with French President Emmanuel Macron today

“The Russian president noted that the reason for the escalation is the provocations by the Ukrainian security force,” according to a Kremlin readout of the call, which also said however that the two leaders “believe it is important to intensify efforts to find solutions through diplomatic means”.

The Kremlin also said Putin told Macron that Nato countries continue “to pump Ukraine with modern weapons“ which “pushes Kyiv to solve the so-called military problem.”

“In the end, civilians in the Donbas are suffering, and have to then have to be evacuated to Russia to protect them the from growing violence,” the Kremlin readout said, referring to the recent mass-scale evacuation of citizens from the Donbas to Russia that the west has called a manufactured war scare aimed at creating a pretext for an invasion into Ukraine.

The Kremlin statement further stated that Putin repeated Moscow’s demands that US and Nato must take Russia’s security demands “seriously.”

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