Kiev and separatists blame each other for bombing Donbas

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Pro-Russian separatists in eastern

and Ukrainian government forces accuse each other of opening fire on each other's territory.

In Stanytsya, a town on the Ukrainian-controlled side, artillery wounded two teachers at a kindergarten.

Observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), which has been monitoring the situation in eastern Ukraine, recorded numerous

along the line of contact in Donbas during the morning, he said. a diplomatic source told Reuters.

Separatist militias from the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) say they had to open fire on Ukrainian military positions in response to their attack.

Ukrainian units were firing mortars and grenade launchers at an area in the south of the republic, according to RIA Novosti.

Representatives of the self-proclaimed Lugansk People's Republic (PLR) also accused the Kiev troops of having committed at least

during this morning.

"The situation on the contact line has become complicated. The enemy is trying to trigger active hostilities," said a message posted on the official Telegram channel of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic.

Donbas lives hours of crossed denunciations.

Kiev accuses Russian forces of having fired on a village near Luhansk.

The shells reportedly hit a kindergarten in the Ukrainian-controlled town of Stanytsya, injuring two teachers.

Russia will respond today to the US

Russian Foreign Minister

announced that Moscow will send its response to the US on security guarantees on Thursday.

"Now we are finalizing our analysis on the US letter. We will send our reply to the US today," said Lavrov, who advocated, contrary to the US,

"We see it as absolutely necessary that interested members of civil society in the countries have an idea of ​​what is going on and understand the position of each party. Because otherwise, if this correspondence is kept secret, as our colleagues in Washington prefer and Brussels, public opinion will be contaminated by the lies and propaganda that currently clutter the news agenda.

Meanwhile, the US government denies the Russian withdrawal and accuses Moscow of

in recent days.

The United States believes that Russia is trying to invent a "pretext" to invade Ukraine with claims of abuses in the area.

On Tuesday Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed that Kiev is committing "genocide" in Donbas, without giving further details.

"Over the last few weeks we have seen Russian officials and Russian media place numerous 'stories' in the press, any one of which could serve as a pretext for an invasion," State Department spokesman Ned Price said.

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