Explosion Rocks Eastern Ukraine Hours After an Amended Cease-Fire Is Signed

[jakeXT]

Source: NYT

DONETSK, Ukraine — A giant explosion shattered the stillness of an early fall morning here just hours after Ukraine and pro-Russian rebels signed the latest version of their cease-fire accord, illustrating the fragility of a truce agreed upon two weeks ago.

Although shelling and other violence continues daily, both sides maintain that the agreement is still in force. The amendment signed overnight Friday into Saturday was meant to strengthen the truce by requiring both sides to move their artillery nine miles back from the front lines, forming a buffer zone clear of heavy weapons.

Although the artillery fire on Saturday violated the original cease-fire, it was not a direct breach of the new provision because of a 24-hour grace period for its implementation.

The artillery struck a dynamite factory that had served this region’s mining industry, with predictably dramatic results. Two powerful explosions lifted a towering cloud of white smoke over the site that was visible from miles away.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/21/world/europe/explosion-rocks-eastern-ukraine-hours-after-an-amended-cease-fire-is-signed.html

[Fred Sanders]

1. So now the Kiev regime is targeting civilian dynamite storage...not enough civilians to target now?

[karynnj]

3. The article specifically did not assign blame - not surprising that you do nt

[Fred Sanders]

4. It seems fairly obvious....from the article and knowing the background.

“What sort of cease-fire is this if every day they shoot at us?” asked a rebel soldier at a checkpoint near the factory, who gave only his first name, Sergei.

Surprised?

[karynnj]

5. Both sides are firing every day

That quote - though immediately after they say it is not clear who hit the dynamite storage - does not mean that JUST the Ukrainians are shooting.

Nor does it even go as far as saying or implying that the areas each control make it more likely that it is one side or the other. It is entirely possible that later articles will either know for sure or at least be able to make the case for it being one side or the other. This article says pretty clearly that they are not assigning blame. (and yes in the past there are times they have blamed the Ukrainians.) The point is you are jumping the gun here -- unless you had another source (that you then should have included.)

[seveneyes]

2. artillery struck a dynamite factory

That's one way to create a man made lake or pond. One would hope any workers left the area once the airborne detonators started coming in.

[Sunlei]

6. There weren't workers there. I bet 'someones' ground fighters were using the 'dynamite factory'

[newthinking]

7. So miraculously nobody was killed in this explosion (Picture)?

Looking at a better pic it is difficult to imagine that nobody was killed. This must have leveled the entire area?

Link to a better facebook picture. (the link is from an pro-donbass person site so ignore the site if it is not your thing, but this will link directly to the pic, which is public )

https://www.facebook.com/TruthfromUkraine/photos/pcb.1550630118493668/1550629778493702/?type=1&theater

[Sunlei]

8. no, I meant Putins Ukraine invadors were in there camping.

standing next to a mountian of dynamite