JFO Headquarters: Invaders violate ceasefire over 7,000 times year to date

JFO Headquarters: Invaders violate ceasefire over 7,000 times year to date

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According to the OSCE SMM data, Russian mercenaries have violated ceasefire in Donbas over 7,000 times since the beginning of 2020.

"Despite the ceasefire agreements reached, the invaders continue to fire for effect on the Joint Forces units. Thus, since the beginning of 2020, the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine has recorded in its daily reports more than seven thousand cases of ceasefire violations committed by Russian armed formations. Small arms, mortars and anti-tank missile systems are widely used throughout the contact line,” Joint Forces Commander Volodymyr Kravchenko said in an interview with Ukrinform.

He noted that the purpose of the armed formations of the Russian Federation was to try to inflict losses on the Armed Forces of Ukraine and prevent the restoration of territorial integrity of Ukraine and the restitution of control over the temporarily occupied territories.

The Joint Forces Commander noted that the occupying forces had not removed much of the heavy weapons at safe distances and grossly violated the Minsk agreements by their actions. The enemy occasionally fires artillery from covered positions which are found within the occupied villages and towns usually.

“Blatantly violating the international humanitarian law, militants systematically shell inhabited localities, killing civilians, damaging houses and critical infrastructure facilities. The enemy is most active in Severodonetsk, Popasna, Avdiivka and Mariupol directions,” Kravchenko said, adding that the occupying power continues to prevent OSCE SMM from impartial assessing the Minsk agreements violations. In particular, the enemy regularly prevents OSCE monitors from entering their military facilities and uncontrolled border crossing points with the Russian Federation. To this end, Russian-occupation troops regularly announce the closure of certain areas, for example, for the purpose of conducting exercises and demining operations that is untrue. Recently, the invaders have explained such actions with measures to counteract the spread of coronavirus infection.

At the same time, Kravchenko assured that the enemy provocations received an adequate response from the Ukrainian military. In 2020, the elimination of 143 Russian mercenaries has been confirmed, 273 militants have been wounded, 28 pieces of equipment have been destroyed. In total, over the course of conduct of JFO, the losses of the Russian-occupation forces have totaled 1,234 persons killed and 2,074 persons wounded.

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