FILE PHOTO: A view shows a residential building, which according to Ukraine's local officials was damaged by shelling, in the town of Vrubivka, in the Luhansk region, Ukraine, February 17. The separatists, for their part, accused government forces of opening fire on their territory four times in the past 24 hours. Neither account could be verified. Press Service of the National Police of Ukraine in Luhansk Region/via REUTERS
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday that weapons prohibited under the Minsk peace process were being used in what he called an alarming and sharp increase in shelling in eastern Ukraine, the TASS news agency reported.
Addressing a news conference in Moscow, Lavrov accused the OSCE special monitoring mission in eastern Ukraine of trying to gloss over ceasefire violations by Ukrainian government forces, Interfax news agency reported.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov meets his Greek counterpart Nikos Dendias in Moscow, Russia February 18, 2022. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/Pool
(Reporting by Andrey Ostroukh; writing by Tom Balmforth; editing by Mark Heinrich)
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