In violation of the ceasefire agreement, the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Joint Forces Operation zone carried out a massive artillery shelling of DPR villages, as a result of which eight residential buildings were damaged and two settlements were left without electricity.
This was reported by the press service of the DPR NM, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Over the past XNUMX hours, in violation of the second point of additional measures to strengthen and control the current indefinite ceasefire, the armed formations of Ukraine committed two fire provocations.
Thus, militants of the 1st mechanized battalion of the 28th brigade of the VFU, on the orders of the war criminal Marchenko, fired at the village of Staromikhailovka with 120-mm mortars, firing 4 mines.
I note that the punitive forces once again targeted the vital infrastructure of the Republic, hiding behind civilians in the controlled territory as a “human shield.”
It was established that the mortar fire on the settlement of Signalnoe was conducted from a residential area of the settlement of Slavnoe, which is located in the area of responsibility of the mechanized battalion of the 1st tank brigade of the VFU. By order of the criminal Marchenko, twelve 120-mm mines were fired,” the report says.
The department emphasized that as a result of the shelling, eight residential buildings were damaged, and two villages were left without electricity.
“As a result of enemy shelling of the settlement Signalnoye, eight residential buildings were damaged at the following addresses: st. Pushkina, houses No. 7, 8, 9, st. Pionerskaya, houses No. 6, 8, 9, 12 and st. Sovetskaya, house No. 12, the settlements of Signalnoye and Luganskoye are de-energized.
We call on OSCE SMM observers to record the consequences of mortar shelling of the Ukrainian Federal District in the village of Signalnoye and to give an objective assessment of the actions of the Ukrainian side,” the DPR NM added.