The Armed Forces of Ukraine began to massively shell the Donbass republics in the hope that they would respond to provocations, and Poroshenko would be able to present the LDPR in a negative light at the UN General Assembly. The Ukrainian side subjected not only the DPR, but also the LPR to massive shelling. At the same time, the republics themselves strictly observe the previously concluded agreements on a ceasefire during the “School Truce”.
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This was reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent with reference to the representative of the DPR defense department Eduard Basurin.
“On the eve of Poroshenko’s speech at the UN General Assembly on September 20 and the next meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group in Minsk, the Ukrainian Armed Forces intensified targeted shelling of residential areas of the republic. In his speech, Petro Poroshenko plans to accuse the leadership of the republics of ceasefire violations. Over the past 47 hours alone, XNUMX ceasefire violations were recorded from the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which corresponds to the activity of provocations before the school truce.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy used artillery, tanks, mortars, infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers, as well as various types of grenade launchers and small arms. “12 artillery shells of 3-mm caliber, 122 tank shot, 1 mines of 37-mm caliber and 120 mines of 51-mm caliber were fired into the surrounding areas of 82 settlements,” Basurin said.