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Eight people were wounded in Sunday shelling of Donetsk’s three districts by Ukrainian troops, the city’s administration said, TASS reports.

"Ukrainian shells hit one house in Luzina Street and two houses - in Kremlevsky Avenue in the Kuibyshevsky district, five people were wounded. One house was hit in Baikalskaya Street in Petrivsky district and one house was hit in Shevchenko Street in the settlement of Alexandrovka, three people were wounded," an administration spokesman said, adding that one more house was damaged in Donetsk’s Kalininsky district.

The Minsk accords were signed on February 12, 2015 after 14-hour negotiations between the leaders of Normandy Four (Russian President Vladimir Putin, French President Francois Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko) in the Belarusian capital city of Minsk. Concurrently, Minsk hosted a meeting of the Contact Group on Ukrainian settlement.

A 13-point Package of Measures on implementation of the September 2014 Minsk agreements in particular included an agreement on cessation of fire from February 15, withdrawal of heavy armaments, as well as measures on long-term political settlement of the situation in Ukraine, including establishment of working subgroups as priority tasks.

The ceasefire however has been repeatedly violated.