{"id":1844,"date":"2015-04-12T17:18:10","date_gmt":"2015-04-12T17:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=1844"},"modified":"2015-04-12T17:18:10","modified_gmt":"2015-04-12T17:18:10","slug":"ukraine-artillery-shell-strikes-hospital-in-donetsk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/ukraine-artillery-shell-strikes-hospital-in-donetsk\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine artillery shell strikes hospital in Donetsk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>A Ukrainian artillery shell has reportedly struck a hospital in east Ukraine\u2019s Donetsk region in violation of a recent truce, according to the defense authorities of the region.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe Ukrainian shell hit directly the surgery department of Hospital No. 21 located in 12a Kremlyovskaya Avenue,\u201d read a Sunday statement by the Defense Ministry of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People\u2019s Republic (DPR) as cited in a report by Russian Tass news agency.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The statement said the Ukrainian army forces were engaged in shelling the positions of pro-Russia forces in Donetsk and were attempting to breach the pro-Russians<strong>\u2019<\/strong> defenses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It added that, overnight on Sunday, two infantry companies of the Ukrainian military also launched an attack on the settlement of Zhabunki on the outskirts of Donetsk.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The DPR defense ministry noted, however, that its forces thwarted the attack after they engaged the Ukrainian troops in direct combat action in the area.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It further expressed concerns that provocative measures by Ukrainian troops at the lines of engagement were escalating tensions between the two sides and may disrupt the peace process in the war-ravaged eastern Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">DPR authorities earlier declared that the Ukrainian military had engaged in activities that grossly violate the ceasefire agreement reached in the Belarusian capital, Minsk, in February.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukraine\u2019s warring sides reached the agreement, dubbed Minsk II, at a summit attended by the leaders of Russia, France, and Germany in the Belarusian capital on February 11 and 12. The agreement introduced measures, including a ceasefire &#8211; which commenced on February 15 &#8211; the pullout of heavy weapons from front-lines, and constitutional reform in Ukraine by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The two mainly Russian-speaking regions of Donetsk and Lugansk have been hit by deadly clashes between pro-Russia forces and the Ukrainian army since Kiev launched military operations in April last year to crush pro-Russia protests there.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Over 6,000 people have been killed since violence erupted in the eastern European country last April, the United Nations says.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">MFB\/HJL\/SS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Ukrainian artillery shell has reportedly struck a hospital in east Ukraine\u2019s Donetsk region in violation of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[75,6,24,5,20,22],"class_list":["post-1844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-conflict","tag-defense","tag-eu","tag-military","tag-russia","tag-ukraine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Ukraine-Forces.jpg?fit=670%2C363&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-tK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1846,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions\/1846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}