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| Military situation in Donetsk is drastically deteriorating as Kiev wages intence shelling
Ukrainian armed forces have broken the latest ceasefire-within-a-ceasefire in Donbass with shelling of the territory of the Donetsk People’s Republic, reports the DPR envoy to the Minsk-2 ceasefire process, Denis Pushilin.
“We are forced to report a drastic deterioration of the situation in the south of the DPR. Despite the agreements signed in Minsk and the recent decisions on disengagement of forces and weapons withdrawal, the Ukrainian side renewed today its provocations towards DPR,” he said.
| Situation in Donbas has been aggravating
After a short period of de-escalation in Donbas region, Eastern Ukraine, numerous ceasefire violations has started again. As Donetsk news agencies reported on October 12, Ukrainian side does not stop shelling in the southern direction. The shelling protracts restoration of power supply in five villages of the Donetsk People’s Republic, the mayor of Novoazovsk region Anatoliy Yaanovskiy informed. ‘Villages as Sergeevka, Leninskoe, Dzerzhinskoe, Zaichenko, Kominternovo are with no power now. Utility services cannot start restoration work because Kiev troops restart shelling all the time since last Saturday’, it was pointed out.
Local fighting in this region was provoked by Ukrainian attempt to break through DPR positions close to Kominternovo and Leninskoe. But Ukrainian military units failed and as a result lost 15 mercenaries and 25 were wounded. From the opposite side two soldiers of the DPR killed, five more got wounded.
It was not only militaries, who suffered. Eight houses got different damages in the village Trudovskie in the west of Donetsk. It was pointed out that 333 cases of shelling with the use of forbidden by the Minsk armament were fixed. Earlier it was reported that Kiev troops targeted last night Zaytsevo, as a result of this several houses damaged.
On October 13 the DPR Head Aleksandr Zakharchenko has stated the serious aggravation of the situation on the line of demarcation of the parties in Donbass, including in the area of Debaltsevo.
‘The situation is escalating not only in the area of Novoazovsk. The situation has aggravated in the area of Debaltsevo; the situation in the areas of Pesky and near Dokuchayevsk remains tense as well. There is nothing about disengagement of forces and facilities in other areas,’ pointed out Aleksandr Zakharchenko.
| Silence regime in Donbas has been violated again
The Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics intend to introduce silence regime in the zone of the military conflict in Donbas unilaterally since September 15. It was stated by the Heads of the DPR and LPR Alexander Zakharchenko and Igor Plotnitsky.
“We state that at midnight overnight to September 15 we stop shelling any territory, conducting any military operations and we urge the Ukrainian side to regard this seriously and to show in practice that they are ready to do it, but not to make declarative statements,” noted Zakharchenko.
According to Plotnitsky, Lugansk also urges Kiev to follow this example.
“I gave corresponding instructions to set “silence regime” at 00:00 o’clock overnight to September 15, 2016. All the units of the Lugansk People’s Republic’s People’s Militia are strictly forbidden to open fire in response to any shellings and provocations of the Ukrainian army and the National Guard,” stated Plotnitsky.
The LPR Head also stated that the Lugansk People’s Republic hadn’t violated silence regime since September 1.
Earlier the staff of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) informed that over the past few days the number of violations has grown sharply on the contact line of the parties in Donbas.
On September 14 these intentions were broken by Kiev regime. As Donetsk information agency reported after midnight there was held a heavy artillery shelling of Donetsk by the Kiev controlled forces from their positions near the locality of Avdeyevka. The Ukrainian army and fascist departments launched artillery shells of 122 and 152 mm caliber onto the residential areas in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk, the village of Oktyabrsky and the locality of Yasinovataya. The local residents were being evacuated to shelters.
| Kiev war crimes: summary execution for supected “separatism”
by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard
In the occupied LPR territory military personnel of the 8 separate special forces regiment (Khmelnitsky, v/ch A-0553) killed a local citizen, suspecting him of “separatism,” writes Timer.
Novoaydar district court reported that the investigator of the military Prosecutor’s office etsablished the date of execution – in the period from 20th July to 31st August 2014.
Besides the special forces, military from the v/ch A-1783 participated in the murder. The man was driven by them in a “Ural” truck from the village of Pobeda in the area between Spivakovka and Popasnaya. The killers suspected that he was involved in formation of an armed unit of the LPR.
The military dug a pit, threw the resident of Donbass into it, and then decided to shoot him (the coroner found in his body more than 10 gunshot wounds).
After all this atrocity the killers buried the body. All that remains of the man was able to be found only this summer on July 23rd.
| Big war coming: DPR prepares for civilians’ evacuation from firing line
