KIEV, Ukraine
Pro-Russian separatists violated Friday's declared cease-fire, wounding a Ukrainian soldier at a checkpoint in Mariupol’s city entrance Saturday night, authorities said.
Mariupol municipality said in a statement said that the soldier was slightly injured in the attack and said a petrol station and buildings near the checkpoint were damaged in the attack.
The Mariupol city, in eastern Ukraine, is largely controlled by Ukrainian forces.
Separately, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) published the 12 point roadmap behind the Minsk truce between Ukrainian authorities and Pro-Russian separatists on Sunday which brought an end to the five-month-long conflict in Eastern Ukraine.
The first points that the contact group (Ukraine, Russia and OSCE) agreed on was an immediate cease-fire in the region; the monitoring of the cease-fire by OSCE; the adoption of decentralizing laws by Ukraine, the distribution of more power to the regional administration in Donetsk and Luhansk, and the holding of early elections there.
Other points of the roadmap include monitoring of border regions between Ukraine and Russia by the OSCE and the creation of a safety zone; the immediate release of those detained as well as the adoption of a law that prohibits the prosecution of people on the events which took place in Donetsk and Luhansk.
The roadmap also states that illegal military formations and military equipment must be withdrawn from eastern Ukraine.
The contact group, which met in Minsk, the capital of Belarus agreed on a cease-fire which entered into force on September 5 at 6 p.m. local time (15:00GMT). The truce ended the five-month conflict which has left over 2,500 people killed, according to United Nations estimates.
Unrest in eastern Ukraine has torn the region apart since April, when Kiev launched military operations in the provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk to restore government control after separatists declared independence in the region.
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