Russian proxies have mounted more
than 35 armed attacks on the Ukrainian forces participating in the
Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) in Donbas, eastern Ukraine, on Friday, according
to the ATO Headquarters' press service.
"Russian-backed gangs have violated all
existing ceasefire agreements. The actions of their gang leaders defy logic.
The combined Russian-separatist forces are not only firing 82mm and 120mm
mortars on the village of Vodiane, which is located in the so-called grey zone
near the Ukrainian-controlled city of Mariupol, but have also become active in
other sectors," the press service wrote on Facebook.
In particular, they used large-caliber machine
guns, various types of grenade launchers and small arms to shell the Ukrainian
positions near the villages of Novhorodske, Zaitseve, Mayorsk, Luhanske, Pisky,
Opytne, the town of Maryinka, and others.
The ATO HQ does not rule out that the escalation
in Donbas might be connected with the arrival of a new so-called
"humanitarian convoy" from Russia in the temporarily occupied
territory in eastern Ukraine. Such convoys bring not only food and basic
necessities, but also weapons and ammunition for militants.
"This can also be a kind of revenge for the
forced exit of illegal formations from the village of Kominternove, which was
a painful blow to the ambitions of the Russian military strategists," the
ATO HQ said.
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