On 17 February, as Ukrainian troops suddenly opened fire on the donbass front, firing wildly at pro-Russian militia positions, and pro-Russian militias also carried out large-scale retaliatory shelling, one Ukrainian soldier was confirmed dead and two Ukrainian servicemen wounded. The Ukrainian armed forces declared that a kindergarten and a train station had been damaged by shelling by pro-Russian militias. In response, the pro-Russian militia did not admit to shelling the kindergarten and acquiesced to the shelling of the railway station. The pro-Russian militia believed that the location where the kindergarten was hit by shells was in front of the Ukrainian army position, and the pro-Russian militia did not have any shells, and could achieve the goal after firing, and then turn around and attack at 180 degrees before reaching the target. At present, the Trudovskaya mining area on the western outskirts of Donetsk is still in a fierce artillery battle and gun battle. In response to the sudden war in Ukraine, Ukrainian President Zelensky has explicitly refused to replay the Minsk Accords and to enter into any negotiations with pro-Russian militias. This means that Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to take retaliatory actions: signing an agreement recognizing Donetsk and Luhansk as "states." Ukrainian President Zelensky wanted to extinguish the fire a few days ago, probably warned by the United States and Britain, and now there is only one way to "go black." The United States, on the other hand, would like to fight on both sides, preferably during the Winter Olympics. The United States does not care whether Ukraine is a foreign war or a civil war, there is a war anyway. Although there were no major casualties on both sides, the artillery battle between the Ukrainian army and pro-Russian militia on February 17 was indeed the largest in recent years.
