Ukrainian military open fire on Donetsk Republic

Units of the Ukrainian military over the past 24 hours, 1,510 times opened fire on the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), one militia was injured, representative of the defense authority Eduard Basurin told the Donetsk News Agency on Saturday.


"The situation in the republic remains tense," he said. "Over the past day, the Ukrainian military 1,510 times violated the ceasefire regime, and one serviceman was injured."

The military launched 132 artillery shells of 152 and 122mm calibers, 526 mines of 120 and 82mm calibers. They used grenade launchers, weapons of infantry fighting vehicles and small arms.

Under the fire were Gorlovka, Yasinovataya and its suburbs, Dokuchayevsk, Yasnoye, Novolaspa, Elenovka, Sosnovskoye, Kominternovo, Sakhanka, Oktyabr, Leninskoye, Bezymennoye, Alexandrovka, Trudovskiye and Staromikhailovka.

Earlier on Saturday, the DPR reported 530 shells and mines launched on the republic overnight from weapons outlawed by the Minsk agreements.
   [tass.com]
19/11/16
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