War returns to Ukraine

Today, the Chief of the Ukrainian Army, President Poroshenko ordered to open massive fire on the militia in the Donbas region. As a result, full-scale military actions resumed today in Ukraine.

The head of the Donetsk People's Republic, Alexander Zakharchenko said that militia forces drove Ukranian soldiers from Peski, where they were stationed before and from where they were firing at the Donetsk airport and Donetsk.

30 people were killed and wounded in the Donetsk region today.

Five representatives of the OSCE Joint Center for Monitoring and Coordination of ceasefire, came under fire near Gorlovka and found refuge in the basement of an apartment house. "They reported long intense artillery fire at Gorlovka’s dwelling quarters from three directions," Itar Tass quotes a spokesman for the headquarters of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR). They also said that the Donetsk residential areas are being shelled by regular Ukrainian army, Itar Tass reports.