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Donetsk Situation Report, 21.10.2018


For the past 24 hours, there have been recorded THIRTY-THREE cease-fire violations by the enemy who has shelled the areas of ELEVEN settlements of the Republic.

In the Gorlovka direction, from the position of the 58th motorized infantry brigade, under the leadership of the war criminal DRAPATOV, the enemy used 82 mm mortars, weapons of infantry fighting vehicles, large-caliber machine guns and small arms on the settlement of the IZOTOV mine in GORLOVKA city.

In the Donetsk direction, from the positions of the 92nd and 28th motorized brigades, under the command of the punishers KOKOREV and MARCHENKO respectively, as well as the 56th motorized infantry brigade, under the command of IVANOV, the enemy shelled the areas of the settlements of YASINOVATAYA, VASILYEVKA, SPARTAK, TRUDOVSKIYE, ALEXANDROVKA, LUGANSKOYE, DOKUCHAYEVSK and the airport of DONETSK city with 120 and 82 mm mortar, IFV weapons, grenade launchers, large-caliber machine guns and small arms. There was also noted the activation of the enemy snipers.

As a result of shelling, a power line was damaged and the settlement of VASILYEVKA was completely de-energized.

In the Mariupol direction, the military of the 79th airborne brigade, who had replaced the units of the 36th Marine brigade, on the orders of another punisher KURACH, launched over FORTY mortar shells on the settlements of LENINSKOYE and SAKHANKA, and also used machine guns and small arms.

A total of over FIFTY 120 and 82 mm mortar shells were launched on the territory of the Republic for the past day.

In addition, the use of enemy sniper groups was noted in the Mariupol direction.


The Ukrainian military continue to ignore the provisions of the Minsk agreements on the ban the UAV use.

In the Donetsk and Mariupol direction, during attacks with the enemyfheavy weapons, unmanned aerial vehicles were used to spot the fire.

Over the past day, another UAV of the quadcopter type, which was spotting the fire on the People's Militia positions in the area of ​​the settlement of Spartak, was destroyed by the DPR People's Militia air defense weapons units.


The number of non-combat losses continues to increase in the AFU units.

In particular, on October 20, at 16.50 in the area of ​​the settlement of BALKA, in the zone of responsibility of the 79th airborne assault brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as a result of the explosion of a mine set by a unit of the 36th Marine brigade, a serviceman of the 79th brigade was seriously wounded and evacuated to a hospital of Mariupol. This incident occurred due to the fact that the commanders of the units that are to be replaced from the area of ​​the so-called UFO, do not transfer the schemes and maps of the minefields to the commanders of the units who arrive to replace them, but offer to buy them.

According to the already established tradition, the UFO command will present this non-combat loss as caused by mythical shelling from the DPR People;s Militia side.


The state of law and order and military discipline in the units involved in the UFO, is characterized as critically low, the brigade commanders continue to conceal the facts of non-combat losses, presenting them as a result of fighting.

At the platoon stronghold of the 92nd brigade in the area of ​​the settlement of AVDEEVKA, while in a state of intoxication, the platoon commander opened fire on the nearby soldiers. As a result, the junior sergeant SEMENYUK was wounded.

In order to conceal the circumstances of the incident, this fact was also presented by the brigade commander as a wound received in shelling.

Head of the DPR Armed Forces' Press Service,captain Daniil Bezsonov