The situation in eastern Ukraine - and particularly on the territory of the much-troubled war-torn Donetsk region - aggravated sharply at the beginning of last week following several months of a relative lull when the pro-Kiev military forces launched an operation around what is left of the former Donetsk international airport.
Simultaneously with combat actions in the area adjoining the airport, Ukrainian pro-government forces started artillery shelling of the urban districts in Donetsk, which until very recently was home to almost a million people.
On Sunday, an amassed artillery strike was delivered at a residential area in the city of Mariupol on the Sea of Azov. It took away the lives of thirty peaceful civilians and left almost a hundred people wounded.
Members of the monitoring mission of the European security organization OSCE who visited the site of shelling said fire had most apparently been delivered from Grad and Uragan multiple rocket launchers from the east and/or northeast.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who had a telephone conversation with Federica Mogherini earlier on Sunday, stressed the importance of an unbiased investigation of the recent artillery strikes at Donetsk and Mariupol with the closest possible engagement on the part of the OSCE.
As they discussed the further situation in Ukraine, Lavrov reaffirmed Russia’s assessment of the situation as a straightforward result of Kiev’s line at avoiding direct dialogue with the leaderships of self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics on practical implementation of the September 2014 Minsk accords and at suppressing insurrection in the southeast of the country by force................http://itar-tass.com/en/world/773244
25/1/15
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