Voice of Donbass

Over 10 Ukrainian Breakthrough Attempts - 4,000 Civilians Without Water - Kiev Starts Next Military Exercises

Voice of Donbass, July 15: 2-day Hell in Donetsk - Ukrainian Breakthrough Attempts - OSCE Watches Bombardments on Internet

The period of relative «calm» in Donbass, which was observed by the end of last week, has come to an end, apparently, due to fresh delivery of artillery shells at the Ukrainian positions. The number of daily attacks on the DPR territory from Kiev has not changed significantly, but along with mortars, the Ukrainian military have again started to use heavy, 122 and 152mm artillery, with the daily number of about 60 rounds, according to the DPR Defense Ministry. At the same time, since the beginning of the week the Ukrainian side has been making attempts to break through or find weak spots in the DPR army defenses. On the night of July 12, after a mortar attack on the western outskirts of Donetsk, the Ukrainian military attacked theDPR position. A little later, another unit of the Ukrainian army decided to conduct reconnaissance in the south-west of the DPR capital. The DPR military authorities reported that both attacks had been repelled, with Kiev having lost five men killed in the...

Voice of Donbass 17.07.16 14:44

Voice of Donbass, July 11: Massive Bombardment of Gorlovka - Record Number of Victims for Year - Nationalists Confess Crimes in Donbass

By the end of the week, the situation in Donbass could be described as the relative "calm". The number of bombardments of the DPR territory from the Ukrainian side did not, of course, decline, reaching, according to the DPR Defense Ministry of Defense, five hundred attacks a day, but they were mostly made with mortars, grenade launchers and small arms. Most of the attacks were carried out by Kiev on the outskirts of Donetsk, Gorlovka, the largest city in the north of the DPR, and in the south of the Republic, in the Kominternovo area. According to the DPR soldiers on positions, near Donetsk the Ukrainian military once again moved into the "gray" area and opened fire on the suburbs of the DPR capital from mortars and infantry fighting vehicles. In response, the DPR army suppressed their firing positions. Near Kominternovo, a DPR reconnaissance group came under heavy fire from the Ukrainian side, with the Republican soldiers saying that they had not experienced the shelling of such...

Voice of Donbass 15.07.16 19:48

Donetsk Shelled in Daylight - Donbass Trains agains Police Mission - Kiev Speaks about Martial Law

The week began in Donbass with a sharp aggravation of the situation on the front. On the night of July 18, the Ukrainian side opened massive fire on the territory of the DPR along the entire front line. The inhabitants of the Republic reported permanent glow in the sky, and, from time to time, the entire horizon flashed. In Donetsk, heavy explosions were clearly audible even in the city center, and in one of the districts, during the night, the lights went out as a shell hit a sub-station. In Gorlovka, in the north of the DPR, four powerful explosions sounded, and then, the glow of a fire was seen in several places, after which people went down to cellars. From Yasinovataya, located...

Voice of Donbass 30.07.16 16:29

Voice of Donbass, July 18: DPR Leader under Ukrainian Attack - Kiev Delivers Missiles to Front - Canada Closes Training Mission in Ukraine

Over the past week, the intensity of shelling the territory of the Republics from the Ukrainian side did not decrease. Kiev mostly used in attacks mortars, grenade launchers, infantry fighting vehicles and small arms, but the number of strikes with the heavy artillery was growing with each passing day. According to the DPR Defense Ministry, over the week the Ukrainian military made about three thousand rounds on the territory of the Republic, about two-thirds of which were made with heavy weapons. The Ukrainian side attacked in three main directions: in the area of Gorlovka in the north, Donetsk in the center and Mariupol in the south; near Gorlovka the DPR soldiers on positions regularly...

Voice of Donbass 18.07.16 18:28

Minsk Talks Fail - Situation in the South Aggravates - US Supply Kiev with Ammunition

By the middle of the week, on the front in Donbass, the number of bombardments of the Republic's territory by the Ukrainian army sharply decreased. At the beginning of the week, according to the DPR Defense Ministry, the Ukrainian military opened fire up to 1,000 times per day; yesterday they made a bit more than 100 attacks, with no artillery used, while on Monday, July 25, about 90 artillery shells landed on the territory of the DPR. The DPR authorities attribute this "calm" to the Contact Group meeting held in Minsk this week. It is not the first time when Kiev pretends to be committed to the Minsk Agreements during such meetings, each time increasing the intensity of the attacks after...

Voice of Donbass 30.07.16 16:20

Voice of Donbass, July 8: Ukrainian Convicts Deserted with Arms - Russia Warns about Escalation - US Journalists See No Russian Army in Donbass

By mid week the intensity of attacks on the territory of the DPR by Kiev decreased slightly. There were still battles going along the entire front line, with the Ukrainian side using mortars, infantry fighting vehicles, grenade launchers and small arms, while earlier this week the DPR Defense Ministry reported about dozens of bombardments with 122 and 152mm artillery. The relative calm, however, did not last long. Yesterday the Ukrainian military again used heavy weapons during night attacks. Residents of the northern, western and south-western outskirts of Donetsk reported in social networks on mortar shells explosions, one after the other. Periodically, even the central districts of the...

Voice of Donbass 10.07.16 22:11