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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has informed the leadership of the European Union, Germany and the United States that the militants violated truce on the east of the country, spokesman for the information center of the National Security and Defense Council Volodymyr Chepovy reported.

“Today President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko informed European
Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden
and German Chancellor Angela Merkel that over the last day the ceasefire
regime has bee violated many times by terrorists in Donetsk and Luhansk
regions,” he said in a briefing on Monday.

According to him, military clashes and shootings have been registered
near Kramatorsk, Sverdlovsk and Slovyansk of Donetsk region and
residential areas of Biriukove and Dovzhansky of Luhansk region, the
urban-type settlement of Ivanivka near the town of Sloviansk, and on the
Horodysche-Chervona to Talovka road in the town of Artemivsk.

Chepovy added that the militants claimed they have no intensions of
laying down arms and are aspired to impose all responsibility for the
failure of the ceasefire on the Ukrainian said, in particular through
sabotages that they will claim to have been organized by the Ukrainian
military.

“At the same time the terrorists are trying to restore human
resources through increasing their ranks with the local population by
force, as well as the citizens from other states, primarily citizens of
the Russian Federation. The Russian social networks are actively
enrolling volunteers to go to the east of Ukraine,” he said.