DPR speaker says there is no peace in southeast Ukraine
MOSCOW. Oct 15 (Interfax) - Speaker of the Supreme Council of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) Borys Lytvynov has said that the September 6 Minsk accords on a truce in southeast Ukraine are not being observed.
In fact there are no days of silence, only a certain lull is on some sections of the frontline but fighting continues in Donetsk, Horlivka and Makiyivka, he said at a Wednesday meeting with Russian State Duma vice speaker Ivan Melnikov.
"Mainly it is long-range artillery but in some places there are direct clashes," he said. "People are dying every day. There is no peace," he said.
"We already know where and what kind of mortars, where and what kind of shells are used, which guns are shooting. Even our children known it, they can tell it by the sounds," Lytvynov added.
He claimed that flares from the use of phosphorus bombs were seen in parts of Donetsk. "Yesterday I was leaving to meet you here... Leaving the city - phosphorus bombs in Kalininsky, Kirovsky and Kiyevsky districts. They were ablaze," Lytvynov said.
