Situation in conflict area escalates

"The [Russia-backed] militants violated ceasefire 35 times along the demarcation line over the past day," reads the report on Tuesday morning. Small arms, grenade launchers and heavy machine guns were used to shell villages near Donetsk. […] The tense situation is again observed in Luhansk region. The separatists keep using some of the arms that were banned under the Minsk agreements on ceasefire and were to be withdrawn from the contact line. No casualties have been reported in the area over the past 24 hours. spokesperson of the Presidential Administration army operation Oleksandr Motuzniak said at a briefing in Kyiv on Tuesday.