Training of tank reserves of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Luhansk regionKYIV, February 18 Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Valery Zaluzhny said that the information about the offensive of the Ukrainian military and the forceful scenario for the liberation of Donbass is not true, the Ukrainian military does not shoot at residential areas in the Donbass and did not plan sabotage in Horlivka. occupied territories do not correspond to reality. The information I provided is confirmed by the OSCE,» Zaluzhny said in a statement posted on Facebook on Friday. According to him, the only acceptable option for Kiev in the Donbass is political and diplomatic.Zelensky will soon order an offensive, Pushilin said, «The military-political leadership of the state does not plan and does not conduct offensive operations in eastern Ukraine. The only acceptable option for us to de-occupy our people and territories is a political and diplomatic one. An offensive operation in the Donbass will certainly lead to numerous civilian casualties, so such scenarios are not even considered,» the commander-in-chief said. He also stated that Ukraine was and is committed to the principles and norms of international law and human morality. Zaluzhny added that the Ukrainian military is not the first to open fire in the Donbass, but only respond to shelling in case of a threat to their lives or the civilian population. «We do not succumb We do not shoot at residential areas where militants have cynically placed their positions… Information about sabotage groups from the joint forces that allegedly planned to blow up chlorine at the Gorlovka sewage treatment plant does not correspond to reality at all, «said the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Armed Forces of Ukraine are planning a breakthrough into the territory of the LPR, said PasechnikEarlier, the People's Militia Department of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic stated that Ukrainian saboteurs who penetrated the territory of the DPR tried to blow up chlorine tanks at sewage treatment plants in the Gorlovka region. On Friday, the People's Militia also released a video showing an attempt by a sabotage reconnaissance group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to carry out sabotage on the territory of the DPR. At the same time, the LPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire Regime (JCCC) reported that Ukrainian security forces were shelling the republic with heavy weapons. Representatives of the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics said on Thursday morning that the armed forces of Ukraine had opened fire on their positions. Ruslan Yakubov, head of the DPR office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire, told RIA Novosti that Kiev is ignoring the Minsk agreements by using mortars and artillery. Representative of the LPR in the political subgroup Rodion Miroshnik told RIA Novosti that by shelling the territory of the republics of Donbass from heavy weapons, Kiev purposefully violates the ceasefire measures in Donbass signed in the summer of 2020. The representative of the People's Militia of the DPR stressed that the artillery armament of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, prohibited by the Minsk agreements and located in positions near the settlements of Donbass, indicates preparations for a military solution. » />The system of civil defense was turned on in DonetskThe Minister of Defense of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov claims that Kiev does not plan any military actions and military operations. As he said on Thursday, Ukraine intends to act in a political and diplomatic way. The head of the self-proclaimed Lugansk People's Republic, Leonid Pasechnik, on Friday called on residents to evacuate to the Russian Federation. He also instructed the heads of territories and law enforcement officers to ensure the evacuation of social facilities and help residents to leave for the Russian Federation. The head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, said that the DPR has been organizing a mass evacuation of the population from the self-proclaimed republic since Friday in connection with the threat of an invasion by Ukraine. shelled the territory of the LPR for a day, Lugansk saidPosted: Kirill Volkov
