MOSCOW, August 13. /TASS/. Ukrainian forces shell the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR) using ammunition produced abroad, head of LPR emergencies ministry’s department of engineering and demining Alexander Brovko said on Thursday.
"There is a lot of foreign ammunition at the contact line. Ukrainian forces use mortars, anti-personnel and anti-tank mines manufactured in Italy, Poland. There are also units whose origin have not yet been established," LuhanskInformCenter quoted Brovko as saying.
According to LPR emergencies ministry, sappers find many Polish mines of 120mm caliber along the contact line near the Schastye town and in settlements of the Slavyanoserbsky district. Ukrainian forces also use anti-personnel mines near the settlement of Stanitsa Luhanskaya, but LPR miners have not yet established the origin and modification of these mines, Brovko explained.
"We don’t have literature on ammunition. We find on the Internet what we can and try to study what we cannot find online," he said.
Minsk agreements on Ukraine
The Minsk accords were signed on February 12, after negotiations in the so-called "Normandy format" in the Belarusian capital Minsk, bringing together Russian President Vladimir Putin, French President Francois Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.
The Minsk accords envisage ceasefire, weaponry withdrawal, prisoner exchange, local elections in Donbas, constitutional reform in Ukraine and establishing working sub-groups on security, political, economy and humanitarian components of the Minsk accords.
The Ukrainian forces and the self-defense forces of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk republics have repeatedly accused each other of violating ceasefire and other points of the Minsk agreements.
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