Russia's permanent representative to the OSCE Alexander Lukashevich said at a meeting of the Permanent Council, the organization said in Vienna, that with the beginning “Operations Combined Forces” (From) in the territory of Donbass, APU significantly intensified fighting.
In a statement, Lukashevich pointed to a significant intensification of the armed forces of Ukraine, consisting in repeated attempts for local breakout Gorlovka and Mariupol direction, capture towns in “gray” zone” and continued shelling positions of militia Republic, and attacking residential buildings and civilians. In addition, he noted, that unlike the APU, militia DNR does not attempt to break the demarcation line and does not move in the demilitarized zone, that is registered in the Minsk Agreement, that Kiev is not going to comply with.
At the same time the operational command of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic said, which further Militia DNI will suppress all emplacements Ukrainian siloviks, where firing at residential areas and civilians, He told the head of the press service of the Operational Command of the Republic Daniel Bezsonov. He added, that in recent times the number of attacks is the residential sector has increased dramatically DNI. DNR also appealed to the leadership of the OSCE with a request to notify the launch of a drone mission, if you do not want to come under fire from the positions of militia, since APU stepped up its intelligence UAV flights, in response, it was decided to strengthen the defense of the republic.
