A member of the Ukrainian State Border Guard Service keeps watch at the Senkivka checkpoint near the border with Belarus and Russia in the Chernihiv region, Ukraine February 16, 2022.
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Ukraine has denied claims by Russian state-controlled media that it launched shells in eastern Ukraine, and accused Moscow-backed rebels of attacking a village in the region.
Russian-controlled media agency RIA claimed on Thursday that Ukrainian forces had shelled territory held by pro-Russian separatists. The two countries currently have a cease fire agreement in place.
In comments to Reuters, the Ukrainian Join Forces Operation denied that this had taken place.
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said in a tweet Thursday that Russian-backed forces had attacked a village in eastern Ukraine, damaging civilian infrastructure.
“Ukrainian Stanytsia Luhanska village was shelled with heavy weapons from the occupied territory of the Donbas. Civilian infrastructure damaged,” he tweeted.
“We call on all partners to swiftly condemn this severe violation of Minsk agreements by Russia amid an already tense security situation.”
Neither report could be independently verified by CNBC. The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) recorded multiple shelling incidents in eastern Ukraine in the early hours of Thursday, Reuters reported.
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