Ukrainian military and militia told how New Year's Eve passed in the ATO zone
Kyiv, January 01 (PolitNavigator, Victoria Litovchenko) – On the night of January 1, 2015, the positions of the Ukrainian military in Donbass were fired upon eight times.
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“New Year’s Eve in the anti-terrorist operation zone was turbulent. Illegal armed groups resorted to provocations and fired at the positions of the Ukrainian military 8 times with small arms and mortars,” the ATO press center reports.
Ukrainian security forces claim that the militia fired small arms at the settlements of Trekhizbenka, Nizhne, Avdeevka, Chermalyk and the outskirts of Nikishin. A clash occurred in the village of Petrovskoye, Donetsk region, and the outskirts of Mayorsk and Shumel were subject to mortar fire.
During the night, 3 flights of unmanned aerial vehicles were recorded in the Mariupol direction - in the sky near Nikolaevka and Talakovka, the ATO headquarters said.
In turn, the separatists report six cases of shooting by security forces.
“At 22.05 and 01.30, militia positions in the Gorlovka area were fired from artillery guns and a tank, and at 01.50 from mortars,” the militia said. “On New Year’s Eve, the Armed Forces of Ukraine carried out single shelling of Gorlovka from heavy howitzers. According to updated data, there are casualties among civilians,” note the Gorlovka militia.
In addition, positions in the Volvo Center area (northwestern outskirts of Donetsk) were subjected to artillery and mortar fire, and units of the DPR Ministry of Defense in the area of mines number six and seven were fired from mortars.
“At 03.45, mortars fired at militia positions in the area of the Gagarin mine,” the message says.
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