Fighter of the People's Militia of the DPR on the line of contactMOSCOW, Feb. 17The military of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic on Thursday were forced to respond to fire from the Ukrainian security forces and destroy their firing points, said the representative of the People's Militia of the DPR Eduard Basurin. «Today they were forced to return fire from the adjacent side and destroy these firing points. If they continue to continue, respectively, we will destroy. Then we'll see which of us was right — the one who defends their lands or who wants to occupy it, «Basurin said on the air of the Rossiya 24 TV channel.
During the day, the security forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired 93 mines on the territory of the DPR, said the JCCCC As reported later in the People's Militia Department of the DPR, on Thursday the Ukrainian security forces violated the truce 21 times, a resident of Staromikhaylovka was wounded. The representative office of the LPR at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire reported that as a result of the shelling of the village of Nikolaevka, residential buildings, a power line and a gas pipeline were damaged. security forces and two civilians were injured. In particular, the military announced the shelling of Stanytsia Luhanska, controlled by Kiev, shells hit the building of a kindergarten, as a result of which three employees received shell shock. The Security Council of Ukraine opened a criminal case under the article «terrorist act». On Thursday, according to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, another shelling was also carried out, this time the village of Vrubovka, Severodonetsk region, was hit. The shelling damaged the building of a local school. The delegation of Kiev in the contact group on Donbass requested to convene an extraordinary meeting. Moscow has repeatedly stated that Kiev does not comply with the Minsk agreements and drags out negotiations to resolve the conflict. The Russian Foreign Ministry noted that Kiev sent half of the entire personnel of the armed forces of Ukraine to the Donbass. Moscow expressed concern about the transfer of military equipment from NATO countries to the Russian borders and the increase in the number of Western instructors in the Donbass. Western countries continue to provide military support to Ukraine, including by supplying weapons that are used in the Donbass.
