MOSCOW, February 17./TASS/. The defence ministry of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's republic fixed no violations of a ceasefire during the night.
"The latest violation was fixed near the town of Kirovskoye at about 8 pm, when the Komsomolets Donbassa mine, which operates in a dewatering mode and was repeatedly targeted earlier, was hit," the Donetsk news agency quotes a ministry spokesman as saying.
A D-30 howitzer, cannon artillery and self-propelled artillery weapons were used mostly, it said.
According to the ministry, 17 ceasefire violations have been registered over the past 24 hours, in which the settlements of Fashcheyevka, Uglegorsk, Gorlovka, Kirovskoe, the outskirts of Donetsk, and the Donetsk airport were targeted.
"Five militias have been wounded in the shilling over the past 24 hours, and there have been no reports about injuries among the civilians," the ministry said.
The ceasefire in Donbass came into effect from midnight on February
15.