Over the past 24 hours, violations of the ceasefire regime by the enemy's armed formations have not been recorded.
As we can see, Nayev, appointed the commander of the joint forces operation, made every possible effort to ensure peace and security during arrival in the so-called 'ATO' zone of his high-ranking "patron" - P. Poroshenko on March 16.
At that, we received information about the facts of a direct agreement between the new commander and the chieftains of the nationalist groups that are not under the control of the government on the front line. Nayev gave a promise to cover up the crimes of nationalists in the future in case they observe a truce for these days.
Also, during the transition from the so-called "anti-terrorist operation" to the "operation of the joint forces", as well as realizing the possibility of a worthy rebuff from our Armed Forces, the enemy decided to concentrate the main efforts on the terror of the local population on territories temporarily controlled by Ukraine.
Thus, according to our intelligence, in the area of Nikolayevka and Novognatovka settlements, representatives of the armed forces of Ukraine, under the guise of carrying out activities to identify supporters of our Republic, as well as the possible intensification of hostilities, are evicting local residents from their homes.
At that, according to the cowardly tradition of Ukrainian military, mostly vulnerable categories of citizens - women, children and the elderly are subject to eviction. That is, families in which men have previously been detained by representatives of the SBU, just died or lost their lives in the zone of the so-called 'ATO'.
Released in such an unscrupulous manner, the houses are given to the occupation of Ukrainian militants, as a result of which they are plundered and, in some cases, destroyed.
The case, clearly demonstrating this, occurred on March 15 in the 93 separate mechanised brigade in the vicinity of Volnovakha settlement, where as a result of an explosion of domestic gas in the place of residence of personnel in one of the occupied houses, one person died and three soldiers of the AFU were injured. As usual, the headquarters of the so-called 'ATO' reported that there were no dead or wounded that day.
Official translation by DONi News Agency
Vice-Commander of the DPR Defense Ministry operative command Donetsk,Colonel Eduard Basurin