Katerina Ivanova
9 Aug. APU test the strength of zaytsevo, Staromykhailivka, Kominternovo and Stakhanov. However, as it turned out, the Ukrainian law enforcers are helpless against their own artillery.
According to sources in the administration of the DNR, the day before, on 8 August, the head of the Republic Alexander Zakharchenko has called an emergency meeting. It is noted that the meeting was attended by all Ministers, except the power unit, which has already been held a separate meeting. Because of the worsening situation at the front from leave revoked all the leading experts. Residents of Donbass are convinced that these actions “caused by information about future clashes”.
Meanwhile, the clash is hard to call the future — rather, they are reaching. And going vengeance. At 19.45 this personally convinced the residents of areas close to Marinka and trudovs’ka. Petrovsky district of Donetsk for the first time listened to LNG and mortars caliber 82 mm later joined by the heavy weapons, the roar of which was perfectly audible and in a nearby Aleksandrovka.
Under Spartacus wielded Ukrainian snipers. At Donetsk airport the APU is immediately fired from mortars of a caliber of 120 mm. Similarly, the events developed in the area yasinovatskiy checkpoint.
Avdeevka tonight has released most of its iron predators. “Tanks, RPGs, LNG, small arms” — listed in the militia. With the advent of artillery caliber of 122 mm at 20.30 all the above lost value.
“From the Vasilievka gunfire and infantry combat with heavy weapons. Mines reach the outskirts of the city on the North side,” watched from the sidelines the residents of Donetsk.
“Then about 23:30 Ukrainian units fired Staromykhailivka guns of 152 mm caliber, — stated in the power structures of the region. Just released 117 artillery projectiles”. As a result of the shelling of the Ukrainian army without light in Staromykhailivka there are about 500 houses.
The North direction is not allowed to sleep and Gorlovka. “Dark forces” in the form of Mat was tested Zaitsev. “The plot thickens”, — joked the militia. In addition to Zaitseva, out of favor with the Ukrainian army got 6/7, Michurino, Nikitovka. The intensity of the attacks decreased only to 23: 00 o’clock in the evening, when the APU is switched from mortars and armored vehicles and anti-aircraft KPVT on the installation.
“For the past day Ukrainian punitive 567 times violated the ceasefire regime”, — stated the Deputy commander of the operational command of the DPR Eduard Basurin. He added that APU released by DNR 117 artillery shells caliber 122 mm and 152, as well as 401 mine caliber 82 and 120 mm.
He drew attention that under fire and spent the night South of the region. “As a result of attacks seriously wounded one soldier of the DNI, he said. In Kominternovo was wounded civilian, born in 1987”.
Basurin commented on the ads that appear on the site front settlements, under the control of Kiev. In these reports that the army DND is planning to attack soon. “Under the pretext that civilians evacuated to the rear, and their household is a unit of the armed forces and nationalist battalions”, — explained the reasons for this information, the representative of the military.
In LC loss in the morning is not found, although the residents of the Republic had to endure one of the most powerful shelling for the last time. For example. Attack APU made at a time when all the inhabitants of the city slept four hours in the morning. As a result of shelling were recorded multiple damages of private houses — roofs, Windows, walls, fences, etc. in addition, damage was caused to Stakhanov it is repair-mechanical plant “Luhanskshakhtoprokhodka and the city cemetery, which is especially upset local residents.
The national police have recorded eight of shelling by the APU during the day. Under fire appeared Logvinova, Kalinovka, lozovoye and viburnum. The attacks were committed from Lugansk, Popasnaya and Novoaleksandrovka. From there the Ukrainian army used mortars of a caliber of 120 mm and 82 mm, CNG and small arms.
August 9 in the press center of the ATO stated that for the last day militias allegedly 47 times opened fire on the forces ATO. 20 attacks from them were recorded by the Ukrainian side in the direction of Mariupol, 16 in Donetsk and 11 in Lugansk. “Over the past day in the fighting one Ukrainian soldier killed, five of our soldiers were injured. These losses of the Ukrainian troops suffered on the Mariupol direction”, — reported to journalists by the speaker of the presidential administration of Ukraine on ATO Col.
However, the Ukrainian data about the losses vary greatly with the intelligence information, the DNI and the LC. According to Baturina, Avdiyivka, about 10 Ukrainian security forces killed under fire of their own artillery. “The Ukrainian side has strengthened provocations on the contact line with artillery. However, a strengthening of the APU goes “sideways”, he said. It is clarified that the losses in the shelling of the APU suffered a 16-th separate mechanized infantry battalion of 58 brigade.
The tragedy occurred in the 93rd brigade of the armed forces, which is based in Luhansk. “As a result of careless handling of ammunition in the state of alcoholic intoxication has been undermining grenades. Two soldiers were killed and two servicemen got wounds of varying severity”, — said the official representative of the LPR militia major Andrey Marochko.
