The Ukrainian party continues violating the ceasefire.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy targeted 14 localities’ areas with 21 artillery artillery projectiles of 122mm calibre, 13 tank rounds, 40mortar shells of 120mm calibre and 53 of 82mm calibre.
In the Gorlovka direction, the enemy shelled two localities’ areas with five mortar shells of 82mm calibre.
In Mariupol direction, the enemy targeted three localities’ areas with five tank shells. In addition to that, grenade launchers and small arms were actively applied.
In total, over the past day, the Armed Forces of Ukraine committed 42 violations of the ceasefire.
As a result of the AFU shelling of Dokuchayevsk, two houses were damaged on the street. Tsentralnaya st., 77, and Vatutin st., 7/71.
Yesterday, the Ukrainian forces committed another war crime against the civilian population. At 19.20, at the orders of Kokorev, from the positions of the 72nd separate mechanized brigade the enemy fired with 120mm and 82mm mortars at the vicinities of Krutaya Balka locality, as a result of which the power supply of the Donetsk filtering station was disrupted and the water supply was stopped.
This terrorist act, organized by the command of the so-called ‘ATO’, was purposefully carried out on the eve of the upcoming today’s meeting in Avdeyevka of the Principal Deputy Chief Monitor of the OSCE Mission Alexander Hug and the US Special Representative for Ukraine Kurt Volker. The idea of Ukrainian war criminals is to demonstrate to Western guests all the hardships of the life of the Avdeyevka population, which they are forced to suffer allegedly due to violations of the ceasefire on our part.
I would like to note that a day before, the head of the so-called military and civil administration of the Donetsk region, Zhebrivsky, partially disclosed the Ukrainian terrorists’ intentions and reported on targeted attacks on the DFS and its possible de-energization.
In its aspirations to demonize the Donetsk People's Republic in the eyes of the Western public, the Ukrainian party deliberately provokes a humanitarian disaster both in the territory of the Republic and temporarily occupied territories.
Minefields, irregularly planted in the Kiev-occupied territory, more often cause death not only of the civilian population, but of the Ukrainian servicemen themselves. For instance, on July 20, six servicemen of the 28th separate mechanized brigade, traveling by car in the vicinity of Nikolayevka locality, drove into their minefield, as a result of which fourservicemen were killed, two were seriously injured. In addition, on July 21, three soldiers of the 72nd separate mechanized brigade tripped a wire in the vicinity of Avdeyevka, installed by combat engineers of the 16th battalion of the 58th separate mechanized brigade, stationed there earlier.
Official translation by DONi News Agency
Vice-Commander of the DPR Defense Ministry operative command Donetsk,Colonel Eduard Basurin