Over the past day the Ukrainian military shelled the territory of the Republic 582 times. The enemy launched 135 artillery shells of 152mm calibre, 46 tank shells, 244 shells of 120mm calibre, 120 shells of 82mm calibre. In addition, the enemy carried out the bombardments with infantry fighting vehicles, grenade launchers and small arms.
The enemy opened fire at the following localities: Ozeryanovka, Mayorsk, Zaitsevo, Yakovlevka, Azotny, Yasinovataya, Dokechayevsk, the Kiyevsky district, the Kuibyshevsky district, the Petrovsky district and the airport of Donetsk city.
The punishers of the 128th separate mountain infantry battalion and the 58th separate motorised infantry brigade conducted the most intensive bombardments from large-caliber artillery of the Kuibyshevsky and Kiyevsky district of Donetsk,Chervonogvardeisky and the Kirovsky district of the town of Makeyevka and the locality of Yasinovataya.
Despite the big orthodox holiday celebrated today - The Ascension of Christ, with bitterness and pain we report about the casualties of the new bloody crime of the fascist regime of Poroshenko.
As a result of the massive fire of the Ukrainian artillery one civilian died and 15 got wounded, 44 housing constructions got seriously damaged. The entire families fell victims to the criminals. The Nizhnets family sustained severe wounds and injuries, the three-year-old child Nizhnets Ilya Olegovich is in intensive care together by mother. Criminal and brutal orders to fire at the cities were given by the commanders of the 128th and 58th brigades, Shaptalo and Zabolotny. However, it is clear that they received the command for massive application of artillery from the headquarters of the so-called anti-terrorist operation.
There are losses in the units of the Republic's People's Militia: one soldier died and one got wounded.
The criminal orders to shell out units and the territory of the Republic were given by the brigade commanders Sokolov, Voilokov, Delyatitsky, and Vodolazsky.
We passed all the data about the Minsk Agreements violations to representatives of the OSCE and JCCC and carry out joint laborious work on recording the war crimes. Fair punishment has to overtake executioners of the Donbass people.
Besides, our intelligence continues reporting the amassing of the enemy's prohibited weapons and personnel along the contact line, that might also be involved in the bombardments:
- In Mayorsk (1,5 km away from the contact line) there was detected the 122mm mortar firing position;
- In Dzerzhinsk (5 km away from the contact line) there were detected three motorised artillery mounts;
- In Novobakhmutovka (10 km away from the contact line) there were detected six120mm mortars;
- In Novosyelovka Vtoraya (8 km away from the contact line) there were detectedthree 82mm mortars.
We urge the population and People's Militia personnel to increase vigilance and readiness for reflection of provocations on the part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Vice-Commander of the DPR Defense Ministry operative command Donetsk Eduard Basurin, official translation by DONi News Agency
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It has always been very obvious that EU (US demanded) sanctions against the Russian Federation are politically motivated, and little to do with reality. For anyone that hasn't been totally blinded by hysterical western propaganda.
Sanctions against Russia simply hasn't worked. All it has done is make Russia forced to become more self-sufficient. Re-invigorate domestic production. Much like sanctions against Iran or North Korea. I would claim that economic sanctions have almost never worked, all they have done is establish a siege mentality.
Russia had absolutely nothing to do with the illegal coup in the Ukraine that overthrew the Yanukovich government. It had nothing to do with the the rejection of the new Kiev usurpers by the pro-russian eastern provinces, whose democratically-elected government was suddenly tossed violently out in favour of oligarch/neo-nazi-ridden usurpers.
Result: the IMF is busily buying out formally publicly-owned Ukrainian utilities, in the expectation that the banking industry that is taking a loss bailing out the Ukrainian economy will take a future profit (Confessions of an Economic Hitman, I think written by John? Perkins?).
Result: IMF is busily pumping 'money' into Ukrainian banking institutions to make them solvent... like 1.8 billion dollars into PrivatBank (owned by Kolomoisky) which promptly disappeared into dodgy and unrealistic deals with Carribean pseudo-companies.... not advertised by MSM revelations in the Panama papers
Result: Kiev government refused to pay constitutionally required unemployment and retirement payments to Donetsk and Lugansk break-away regions, even though they still contributed to those funds... essentially stolen.
Result: A furiously corrupt government, whose president has still refused to devolve himself of his commercial holdings, despite being required to by the Ukrainian constitution.
Result: An illegal Kiev government that considers the better part of their country, and a significant part of their population, to be nothing more than a wholesale set of terrorists.
Result: a population badly suffering from 'economic rationlization'
This is what the west regards as democracy. Democracy is a convenient fiction, it only works when the PTB gets a convenient result. Which is why 'democracy' in a jihadist Kosovo is a good thing, and the then-Yugoslavic Republic deserving of sanctions and indeed an outright bombing campiagn, yet 'democracy' in Crimea is an awfully bad thing. Like 'democracy' in Bahrain.
It's all about money, glorious money, make no mistake. Know who controls your politicians, see through the wood.
Another simple fact: western politicians are far richer than their avowed enemies in China or Russia. They have a far richer gravy train to suck up to. An ever-entreating teat. Blair/Clinton/Bush's. Aren't they doing it tough after their evil/wicked/illegal wars for no real reason other than control of more and more oil resources