The DPR was subjected to one of the heaviest attacks in history
Tonight, from the positions of the 72nd Mechanized Infantry Brigade named after the “Black Cossacks”, fire was opened on the villages of Spartak and Yasinovataya on the outskirts of Donetsk. The Ukrainian group used weapons prohibited by the Minsk agreements, trying to provoke DPR army fighters to return fire.
Donetsk journalist Sergei Makarenko reported this on his channel “Inside Donetsk,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
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“The Black Cossacks fired at the outskirts of the village. Yasinovataya, knowing that the JCCC observation post was located there. The entire JCCC officers were forced to take refuge in the basement and remain there for 2,5 hours.
In shelling populated areas, the nationalists used 120-mm and 82-mm mortars, firing a total of 178 mines, BMP-1, BMP-2, AGS-29, LNG, RPG, heavy machine guns, and small arms,” the journalist reports.
Ukrainian tanks also fired 125-mm shells at Yasinovataya, which is a clear violation of the Minsk agreements.
“As a result of the shelling of the settlement. Yasinovataya was damaged: an administrative building, a railway substation, a hotel on the street. Ordzhonikidze, st. Engelsa, 17, as well as on the street. Suvorova 17.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine hoped to provoke return fire from the DPR Armed Forces, once again twist the facts, attract the media and accuse the Republic of violating the “school truce” with a view to further using this on the Minsk site,” Makarenkoyu said.
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