On Thursday night, ATO forces were shelled four times despite the statements by the representatives of separate areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions on ceasefire, ATO headquarters Speaker Ivan Ariefiev told Interfax-Ukraine.
“We have recorded four shellings since 24:00. All shelling cases were recorded in Avdiyivka in the Donetsk direction, where the enemy applied small arms. Novooleksandrivka [Luhansk region] experienced machine-gun and rocket-propelled grenade attacks,” he said on Thursday.
Ariefiev stressed that the ATO forces did not open fire in response.
The previous day in Kyiv, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said the ceasefire regime in eastern Ukraine would take force at midnight between September 14 and 15 to last for a week.
“Tonight, at midnight the ceasefire regime will take force, and [it will remain effective] for a week,” Steinmeier told at a briefing conference that he attended together with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin and French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault in Kyiv on Wednesday.
On Thursday, foreign ministers of Ukraine, Germany and France will visit Kramatorsk and Sloviansk (Donetsk region).
