Voice of Donbass

Voice of Donbass, July 1: Kiev Probes DPR Defense - DPR Changes Response to Provocations Concept - Sappers Captured During De-Mining

This week the negotiations of the Contact Group have resumed in Minsk, and, naturally, the situation at the front has sharply deteriorated. According to the DPR Defense Ministry, the intensity of fire on the DPR territory by Kiev has increased significantly, reaching 700-800 bombardments on some days. In addition to traditional mortars, infantry fighting vehicles, grenade launchers and small arms, the Ukrainian side also openly used artillery of large calibers, which accounted for about a hundred attacks per day. The most massive bombardments were applied to Donetsk in the central part of the front, Gorlovka in the north of the DPR, and Dokuchaevsk and Kominternovo in the south, Mariupol...

Voice of Donbass 07.07.16 03:24

Voice of Donbass, June 24: Ukrainian Positions in Residential Areas - Journalists Under Radicals’ Fire - Russian representative to JCCC Deported

By the beginning of the week, the intensity of the attacks on the DPR territory by Kiev declined slightly. The high activity of the Ukrainian military remained, according to the DPR men on positions, in the south of the Republic, in the Kominternovo area. There the Ukrainian side, under cover of mortars and grenades launchers, tried to carry out reconnaissance of the DPR defense fire positions, slightly changing the direction of their attacks every day. In the Donetsk area, the central section of the front, according to the DPR Defense Ministry, attacks on the Ukrainian side were mostly carried out with mortars, as well as there occurred regular exchange of fire from heavy machine guns and...

Voice of Donbass 30.06.16 03:21

Voice of Donbass, June 27: Two Children Killed - Terrorist Attack in Donetsk - DPR Demands Sanctions for Ceasefire Violations

The exploded bomb of the British referendum and its consequences pushed, in the eyes of the world, the war in Donbass far into the background. Naturally, Kiev took advantage of it, having increased, by the end of the week, the intensity of the shelling of the Republic’s territory. According to the DPR Defense Ministry, the Ukrainian side carried out attacks along the entire front line, but they were the most intense in the north and south of the Republic where the Ukrainian army is trying to besiege the cities of Gorlovka Dokuchaevsk, as well as in the centre, in the Donetsk area. During the attack Kiev used mainly mortars, grenade launchers, infantry fighting vehicles and small arms,...

Voice of Donbass 30.06.16 03:22

Voice of Donbass, June 13: Another “Silence Regime” - Another Massive Shelling of DPR Territory - DPR Army Returns Fire

In the morning of June 10, 2016, the DNR requested an emergency meeting of the Contact Group in Minsk after the severe bombardments of the previous night, which led to the death of one and injury of another 15 civilians, including a 3-year old child, and the destruction of 77 homes in the Republic. The first attempt at negotiations was thwarted by the Ukrainian side, and the meeting was held, in the conference video mode, only in the late afternoon. As a result of the negotiations, it was decided to establish a “silence regime" to conduct an investigation into the attacks. The investigative commission comprised representatives of Kiev, the DPR, the OSCE and the JCCC. The following night...

Voice of Donbass 16.06.16 03:28

Voice of Donbass, July 4: Ukrainian TV Staged Attacks - Kiev’s Losses on Minefields - Secret Service Cleansing Ukrainian Army

Voice of Donbass, June 20: Situation Aggravates In the South - DPR’s Preventive Strikes - Nationalist Radicals Leaves the Front

By the end of the week the situation in the south of the DPR dramatically worsened. In the Mariupol direction Kiev shelled the positions of the Republican Army and peaceful localities with heavy artillery, anti-tank missile systems, anti-aircraft systems and mortars. After the attacks, the Ukrainian side made several attempts to break through the defense of the DPR army. All the attempts were unsuccessful, with one Ukrainian soldier killed, according to the Kiev media, in one of these clashes. Intensive battles were also fought in the north of Gorlovka, the west of Donetsk and in the area of Yasinovataya located between Donetsk and Gorlovka. At the Yasinovatsky checkpoint, the soldiers of the DPR army made a video which shows a Ukrainian armoured vehicle approaching their positions under the cover of small arms. Over the past week, according to the DPR Defense Ministry, Kiev made more than 3,500 attacks on the territory of the DPR, including nearly 2,500 bombardments with heavy...

Voice of Donbass 23.06.16 02:52

Voice of Donbass, June 17: DPR’s Counter-Battery Fire - Kiev Gives Up On Radicals - Poroshenko Calls To Guerrilla War

In recent days, in Donbass, along the entire front line, the heavy fighting is going on, the intensity of which, according to most observers, is gradually approaching that of 2014-2015. The situation is particular hard in the area of Donetsk, its satellite town of Makeevka, Dokuchaevsk in the south, Gorlovka in the north, and Yasinovataya situated between Donetsk and Gorlovka. The Ukrainian side is openly using artillery of calibers prohibited by the Minsk Agreements. Among hundreds of bombardments of the DPR territory by Kiev, which are daily reported by the DPR Defense Ministry, dozens are carried out with 122 and 152mm cannons. In addition, the Ukrainian army continues to traditionally use infantry fighting vehicles, mortars, grenade launchers and small arms. Two days ago, soldiers of the DPR army DNI, located near the Donetsk airport, reported the arrival of a few rockets from positions of the Ukrainian army. The few residents remaining in suburbs adjacent to the airport said...

Voice of Donbass 19.06.16 01:10