It's ceasefire violations, and violations by both sides.

More importantly, the total of only 27 civilians died in all 2021, and most of them died from mines and unexploded munitions (ans now in 2023 there are almost infinitely more of mines and unexploded munitions in Donbas). Less than 1 civilian died on average in direct hostilities in any month since 2018, and usually none died in a given month. These violations were soldiers firing at each other from their opposite trenches.

If you have a sniper shot fired and missed at an enemy observation post (by either side), it's 1 violation. If you have a single magazine from an automatic grenade launcher emptied in under 1 minute, it's dozens of "explosions" that are reported.

It was a "frozen conflict", but with tens of thousands of troops sitting in their trenches and garrison towns on both sides of the contact line all the time.

It's ceasefire violations, and violations by both sides.

More importantly, the total of only 27 civilians died in all 2021, and most of them died from mines and unexploded munitions (ans now in 2023 there are almost infinitely more of mines and unexploded munitions in Donbas). Less than 1 civilian died on average in direct hostilities in any month since 2018, and usually none died in a given month. These violations were soldiers firing at each other from their opposite trenches.

If you have a sniper shot fired and missed at an enemy observation post (by either side), it's 1 violation. If you have a single magazine from an automatic grenade launcher emptied in under 1 minute, it's dozens of "explosions" that are reported. It was a "frozen conflict", but with tens of thousands of troops sitting in their trenches and garrison towns on both sides all the time.

It's ceasefire violations, and violations by both sides.

More importantly, the total of only 27 civilians died in all 2021, and most of them died from mines and unexploded munitions (ans now in 2023 there are almost infinitely more of mines and unexploded munitions in Donbas). Less than 1 civilian died on average in direct hostilities in any month since 2018, and usually none died in a given month. These violations were soldiers firing at each other from their opposite trenches.

If you have a sniper shot fired and missed at an enemy observation post (by either side), it's 1 violation. If you have a single magazine from an automatic grenade launcher emptied in under 1 minute, it's dozens of "explosions" that are reported. It was a "frozen conflict", but with tens of thousands of troops sitting in their trenches on both sides at any moment.