The situation on the contact line remains tense.
Yesterday, the US Department of State special envoy K. Volker made a loud statement about Ukraine's right to open fire on its own territory. With such a statement, the US questions the further aspirations of Kiev to implement the agreements reached in Minsk and unleashes the hands of the AFU war criminals.
Over the past day, the Ukrainian occupation forces have not reduced the intensity of shelling on the territory of the Republic, with the fire mostly concentrated on residential areas of settlements.
In the Mariupol direction, the Ukrainian military attacked the settlement of Leninsky. The Ukrainian terrorists from the 36th separate Marine brigade, led by the war criminal and murderer A. Gnatov, launched TWO 120 and 82 mm mortars on the settlement.
In the Donetsk direction, the military from the 93rd separate motorized brigade, led by another war criminal V.Klochkov, shelled the settlements PETROVSKY and VESELOE. The attack was carried out with grenade launchers of various types and small arms, including large-caliber weapons.
In the Gorlovka direction, the Ukrainian occupiers shelled the settlement of DOLOMITNOYE. The military from the 24th separate motorized brigade shelled thet residential quarters with grenade launchers and small arms. As a result of the shelling, the power lines are broken, work is currently underway to restore the power supply in the settlement.
FIVE violations of the cease-fire regime by the Ukrainian occupation forces were recorded in just a day.
Due to the coming persecution of volunteers in the zone of the occupation forces operation, as we stated earlier, the confrontation between the Ukrainian media and the command of the occupying forces has intensified. The Ukrainian leading media continue to blame the military leadership for concealment of losses. In particular, in response to the statement of the Ukrainian military command of July 10 on the absence of losses among the personnel, the Ukrainian media reported the death of a serviceman from the Lvov region, thus, once again, accusing the AFU of lying and spreading disinformation.
However, despite the increased confrontation, the command of the occupiers still have to put up with the presence of the film crews of the TV channels in the zone of the operation. In particular, before July 15, representatives of SEVEN national and foreign media worked in the front-line region (TRK Ukraina, Channel 5, Agence France Press, Gazeta Priazovsky Rabochiy (Mariupol), For Human Rights, Newspaper "Express" and Polish media "Outriders"). In the period from June 1 to July 8, the UFO zone was visited by more than 30 groups of Ukrainian and international media agencies to collect falsification materials before today's meeting of the Contact Group in Minsk. Also, it is possible that the military-political leadership purposefully collected compelling materials (photos, video reports) in order for P.Poroshenko to use them during the NATO summit on July 11-12 for accusation of the leadership of the Russian Federation and the People's Republics of escalating the conflict in the south-east of Ukraine and non-fulfilling the "Minsk agreements".
Head of the DPR Armed Forces' Press Service,captain Daniil Bezsonov