A ceasefire, to which the militants currently do not agree, is a condition for the demilitarization of Shyrokyne (near Mariupol) and the beginning of a peace process, the Ukrainian presidential administration said.
“The main condition for demilitarization and deployment of the peace process and the establishment of peace is a ceasefire. The enemy has not ceased fire. For this reason, we are responding to their attacks,” Andriy Lysenko, the presidential administration’s spokesman on issues relating to the military operation in Donbas, told a briefing in Kyiv on July 27.
The militants carried out three short-term provocations in Shyrokyne on Sunday, he said.
Lysenko said the enemy had carried out a mortar attack on the positions of the Ukrainian troops near the village of Novoselivka-2, opening fire from the opposite bank of the river Kalmius, in the past 24 hours.
