The resumed artillery shelling of Ukrainian territory by Russia means that the Russian side does not want to start fulfilling the Minsk agreements, Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) has reported.

"As for artillery shelling from Russian territory, it means that Russia does not even try to begin to comply with the Minsk agreements. It continues to arm militants and send regular armed units into the area temporarily occupied by terrorists," NSDC spokesman Andriy Lysenko said at a press briefing on Friday.

He said that the resumption of shelling of Ukrainian territory from Russian territory had been recorded over the past 24 hours, "for the first time since the signing of the Minsk agreements."

Lysenko said that artillery shelling had been sighted from the direction of the village of Manotsky, Tarasovsky district, Rostov region of Russia, in the direction of the village of Komyshne, Stanytsia Luhanska district, Luhansk region of Ukraine, "in the vicinity of a border post of the Luhansk detachment" of the State Border Service of Ukraine.