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Artillery blasts rocked Donetsk on Sunday morning, exactly one month since the rebels signed a 12-point agreement with Kyiv’s representatives to try to halt the hostilities that have killed over 3,300 people in eastern Ukraine. 

Public transport has not been suspended and switched to the weekend schedule.

The service of 70 electrical substations has been restored over the past 24 hours, with 41 substations remaining out of power, as of October 5.

A recent statement by the Donetsk administration on their official website listed the damage to the city over the past days and concluded: “The truce is worse than the battle action.”

On Sunday shelling has struck Donetsk’s Kyivskaya area, inflicting casualties among civilians. “The units of the MES [Ministry of Emergency Situations] are in place. According to preliminary records, there are casualties among the civilian population,” according to Donetsk administration. 

Despite the continuing carnage, however, both sides have stopped short of declaring the truce null. Russian and Ukrainian soldiers have even created a monitoring contact group together with the OSCE to patrol the frontline. 

Donetsk is one of Ukraine’s southeastern regions where the Kyiv forces have been clashing with independence supporters since mid-April.

On September 5, a ceasefire was reached at a Contact Group meeting in Minsk, followed by adoption of a memorandum on September 19 that outlined steps for ceasefire implementation. 

According to the United Nations estimates, the conflict has so far killed over 3,600 people and injured over 8,500.

(VoR, RIA Novosti, AFP)