Donbass fighter
© Mikhail Sokolov/TASS
The situation in the Donetsk People's Republic remains tense.

Over the past day the Ukrainian military shelled the territory of the Republic six hundred seventy times. The enemy launched three hundred twenty-nine 120mm mortar shells and a hundred seventy-two 82mm mortar shells. In addition, the enemy used in shelling infantry fighting vehicles, grenade launchers and small arms.

The punishers opened fire at the following localities: Zaytsevo, Spartak, Zhabichevo, Yasinovataya, Staromikhaylovka, Dokuchaevsk, Sakhanka, Kominternovo, the Petrovsky district and the airport of Donetsk city.

As a result of a bombardment of the city of Gorlovka by the punishers of the AFU one house in the Lisyanskogo street burnt down.

The criminal orders to shell were given by the brigade commanders Ryabokon, Vodolazsky, Sokolov, Delyatitsky, Voylokov and Zabolotny.

We passed all the data about the Minsk Agreements violations to representatives of the OSCE and JCCC.

Our intelligence continues to report the amassing of the enemy's prohibited weapons and personnel along the contact line.

- In Victorovka (1 km away from the contact line) there were detected three tanks and eight 120mm mortars.

According to our operative sources, a commission composed of officers of the higher headquarters arrived in the area ofVolnovakha. The aim of the Commission is to assess the moral and psychological state of the units of the 72nd separate mechanised brigade deployed in the area. Local residents gathered for a rally and demanded that the command take measures and withdraw the units of the 14th battalion of the 72nd separate mechanised brigade from the locality, due to the fact that the residents were tired of having to tolerate humiliation and extortion from the AFU soldiers who, moreover, constantly remained in an indecent condition.

We hope that the Ukrainian military authorities will finally take action in curbing their frenzied and morally-corrupted soldiers and stop attacks on localities of the Republic, the results of which is the destruction of homes and suffering of the civilian population of Donbass.