Conflict In Eastern Ukraine Flaring Up, Ukraine Sabotaging Agreements - LPR Head

LUHANSK (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 07th May, 2021) The armed conflict in eastern Ukraine is intensifying as Kiev sabotages previously agreed upon ceasefire arrangements, head of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) Leonid Pasechnik has told Sputnik.

"It is absolutely wrong to call the conflict frozen or smoldering when the Ukrainian armed forces regularly fire at our territory with heavy weapons, mortars, small weapons, when people are dying on our territory. It is far from smoldering, far from being frozen," Pasechnik said.

"I think that at this moment it is a quite serious, acute conflict. You can say that it has been flaring up in the last months. And the military truce, or compliance with the ceasefire are out of the question.

And the blame for sabotaging all these agreements lies squarely with Ukraine," the LPR official stressed.

The Ukrainian government launched a military operation against the breakaway Donetsk and Luhansk regions in the east in April 2014. According to the latest UN data, the casualties in the conflict number approximately 13,000 people.

Prospects for peace have been discussed in various formats, including during the meetings of the contact group in Minsk, which, since September 2014, has already adopted three documents that regulate steps to de-escalate the conflict. Nevertheless, despite various ceasefire agreements, the fighting in the region continues.