DONETSK, November 1 (RIA Novosti) — The tense situation persists in the city of Donetsk, as the sounds of gunfire explosions are heard all around the city throughout the day, the Donetsk City Council said in a statement published on the official website Saturday.
"As of 6 p.m. local time [16:00 GMT] the situation in Donetsk is tense. Cannonade and sounds of explosions did not stop in the city throughout the day," the statement read.
It has been also reported that the experts managed to restore gas supply to some homes in the Leninsky district of Donetsk, as well as some electricity wires, previously damaged by shelling in the Kuibyshev district.
Earlier on Saturday, the Donetsk authorities have reported artillery shelling in the center of the city.
On September 5, during a meeting of representatives from Ukraine, Russia and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Minsk, a ceasefire agreement was signed between Kiev and Ukraine's self-proclaimed people's republics of Donetsk and Luhansk. Additional ceasefire provisions were agreed upon during the second meeting of the Contact Group on Ukraine held in the Belarusian capital on September 19.
The independence supporters have repeatedly reported the violations of the ceasefire agreed in Minsk.
The self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR) have set the elections for their regional leaders and legislative bodies for November 2. The DPR and the LPR want full independence for the whole territory within the borders of the respective administrative entities in Ukraine.
