Ukrainian military ordered not to fire back in response to militant provocations
Under the instruction of Chief of the General Staff of Ukrainian Armed Forces Viktor Muzhenko, Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) forces will not open fire in response to militant provocations, according to a Ukrainian envoy in Joint Center for Control and Coordination (JCCC).
JCCC envoy General Major Borys Kremenetsky, speaking at a briefing on the ongoing developments along the contact line, reported that militants in certain districts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions continue to break the ceasefire.
"The terrorists aren’t giving up their aimed and provocative attacks of the ATO positions with small arms, large-caliber machine-guns and grenade launchers, attempting to provoke the servicemen of Ukrainian Armed Forces to fire in response and violate the Minsk agreements," the ATO press centre quotes Kremenetsky as saying.
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