Armed Forces of Ukraine attempted to break the line of defense of the Donetsk People's Republic in the area of Gorlovka, the chief of the press service of the Armed Forces of the DNI Daniel Bezsonov.
According to him, Ukrainian security officials last night attacked the DNI position near Gorlovki. DNI servicemen fired back, resulting in Ukrainian security forces suffered heavy losses and were forced to retreat.
Yesterday the Ukrainian security forces attempted to improve their position in the direction of Gorlovka. <…> However, the fire of our troops from non-prohibited weapons militants were stopped and suffered heavy losses - he said.
According to him, APU lost nine killed, five others injured. With two soldiers killed side DNI.
He also added, that Ukrainian security officials planned to break through the defense line of the NPT in order to create a base for further offensive action in the direction of Gorlovka. As a result, security forces occupied Chigaru holiday village in the so-called gray area.
Currently Adventure, under cover of local residents, are tactically disadvantaged, fully controlled from lost Heights, in a holiday village Chigarev - said Bezsonov, while adding, that the fact of capture awkward position command APU will still be used for PR and justify their losses. In this way, we can say, that the Ukrainian Armed groups still managed to take control of the land territory of the Donetsk People's Republic in the format, as they say in the APU, “zhabego jump”. OSCE SMM did not notice anything…
