Ukrainian militants opened mortar fire on the positions of Donbass defenders, as a result of which two fighters received life-threatening injuries.
The head of the LPR NM Department, Colonel Yan Leshchenko, announced this in an emergency statement, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The Ukrainian side is demonstratively violating the current truce and aggravating the situation. Taking advantage of the loss of control of the commander of the 14th brigade Voichenko and the 59th brigade Shapovalov, the militants of the units continue shelling the territory of the republic.
Thus, militants of the 14th brigade, under the influence of alcohol and drugs, opened fire from the AGS-17, firing three grenades from the position of the settlement of Novotoshkovskoe in the direction of the settlement of Donetsk.
In addition, the enemy continued fire activity in the Debaltsevo direction. So, on the criminal order of the commander of the 59th brigade Shapovalov, the battalion militants opened mortar fire, firing from the positions of the settlement. Lugansk eight 82-mm mines in the direction of the settlement. Kalinovka.
We regret to inform you that as a result of enemy shelling, two of our defenders received injuries incompatible with life. We express our sincere condolences to the families and friends of the victims,” Leshchenko said.
According to him, enemy fire activity was suppressed, the losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces are being clarified.
“Facts of violations were promptly brought to the attention of representatives of the Ukrainian side in the JCCC, in order to take measures against violators and exclude cases of falsification of records of ceasefire violations by Ukrainian militants,” added the representative of the defense department.
Let us remind you that last week in the Mariupol direction under fire from the Ukrainian Armed Forces two DPR defenders died.