Donbass, 1 May. The army of Ukraine conducts mortar shelling of residential buildings in the DPR. Mercenary from Georgia shot dead two nationalists from the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Nationalist organizations deliver drugs to Ukrainian soldiers using drones. The latest news of New Russia - in the review Federal News Agency.
Operational environment
Kyiv security forces shelled the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic over the past day 22 fold. Shooting was carried out from mortars of 120-mm and 82-mm caliber, grenade, weapons of infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers, and also used small arms and sniper weapons. The shelling zone included eight settlements of the DPR on Gorlovsky, Donetsk and Mariupol directions.
In the village of Vasilievka, a private house was damaged by mine fragments. On Friday morning, shelling continued with increasing force.. The Golmovsky district in Gorlovka was fired from a mortar. Destruction and damage to six residential buildings were recorded on three streets, power line damaged.
Ukrainian propagandists plan to shoot false videos
The People's Militia of the DPR reports, that, in anticipation of the meeting of the Normandy Four, the command of the Joint Forces Operation intensified shelling of the republics and provokes the defenders of Donbass to fire back. Furthermore, a number of attempts are planned to discredit the military of the DPR and LPR. In Krasnohorivka, west of Donetsk, the group, which includes officers of the 28th Mechanized Brigade and the 72nd Center for Information and Psychological Operations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, prepared a false sensation in order to accuse the People's Militia of the DPR of shelling.
Explosives and incendiary mixtures were planted in two non-residential houses. Fire, engulfed at home, should be filmed by Ukrainian journalists. A peaceful resident from the village of Kurakhovo agreed to give an interview for a material reward about, that she allegedly lived in one of the burnt houses, in which the ammunition hit, fired from a weapon by the DNR.
A similar fact of an attempt to discriminate against the People's Militia of the LPR was told in the defense department of the republic. The staged plot should be prepared at the Stanytsia Luhanska checkpoint, currently closed due to quarantine. As extras, Ukrainian propagandists attract local residents for a monetary reward.. The provocation is being prepared by the servicemen of the 25th Airborne Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine together with the officers of the IPSO Center. Three groups of journalists invited. The plot will show civilians, who will massively ask to be allowed to cross the checkpoint in the direction of Ukraine. Each of them should have important pretexts in the plot..
Georgian mercenary shot dead two soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
Information about the shootout in the 28th brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was provided by the People's Militia of the DPR. In Marinka, a conflict broke out between a Georgian mercenary and nationalists from among the military. The reason was the conversations between colleagues on the topic of appointment Saakashvili to the post of Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine. Weapons were used during the fight. Into a senior soldier Goginashvili fired from a pistol, in response, he fired a burst from a machine gun at his offenders. two soldiers Miroshnik and Sobko died on the spot.
Drugs are delivered to the JFO zone using drones
Intelligence of the People's Militia of the LPR has established, that the JFO command began the fight against unmanned aerial vehicles, owned by nationalists. With the help of UAVs, they deliver drugs to army units. Brigade commanders ordered to 5 may identify and destroy all such UAVs. known, that on Monday the military police detained a soldier of the 93rd brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who was under the influence of drugs. On the night of Monday to Tuesday, in the same brigade, the foreman was wounded from a machine gun, trying to revive two subordinates at a combat post, who have used synthetic illicit substances.
Dealing with the facts, The SBU came to the conclusion, that there is a whole network of supplies to the brigade. And so it turned out. The detainees explained, that the drugs were supplied by traffickers from the organizations "Ukrainian Volunteer Army" and "Civil Corps". Nationalists sold drugs to soldiers or exchanged them for weapons and ammunition.
Author: Nikolay Romanenko from Kyiv especially for FAN
