
In Donetsk, in the area of the SBU, which was captured by the separatists on the SBU Street, fire weapons are fired. This was reported on the official website of the mayor of Donetsk Alexander Lukyanchenko.
Residents of nearby houses are asked not to approach the windows, not to go to the balconies and the street without urgent need, as well as, if possible, adjust the movement routes in the area.
Shortly before shooting, fighters were constantly circling over the city, UNIAN reports from eyewitnesses. A few hours before, Donetsk "drove armored vehicles, several trucks with armed terrorists and some guns drove." There was an ambulance in the column.
"The terrorist groups operating in the ATO zone in the Donbass are actively using stolen ambulances. These cars are used to transport weapons and ammunition, as well as to transport militants to the place of terrorist shares," said Dmitry Tymchuk, head of the Information Resistance group.
Over the past hours in Donetsk, ATO forces have neutralized a number of firing points of terrorists, Tymchuk reports . “The militant mortar was seized in the airport area. A Caucasian was identified among the militants. The bombing of the RPO“ Bumblebee ”of the terrorists was also captured. In addition, a minibus with weapons was also seized in the Donetsk airport in Donetsk - among other things, it contained 10 manual anti -tank grenade launchers,” Tymchuk said.
Last night in the city of Rubezhnoye militants fired at the block of the posts of a mechanized brigade, the ATO speaker Vladislav Seleznev reports . According to him, terrorists also fired in the residential quarters of a settlement from mortar and automatic grenade launchers within an hour and a half.
“Thus, the militants are trying to convince the local population that Ukrainian servicemen use weapons against the people of Ukraine,” Seleznev notes. “The leadership of the ATO once calls for local residents not to succumb to provocations. Under any conditions, they do not open fire in the direction of residential quarters. Only terrorists and their accomplices use such vile tactics.”
The power operation in the east of Ukraine "finally began," said Petro Poroshenko, who won the presidential election, said in an interview with Bild. According to the politician, the east of Ukraine is at war. “We will put an end to this nightmare,” the future president said.
Terrorist column in Donetsk
Immediately after the presidential election, government forces resumed an anti -terrorist operation in eastern Ukraine . In Donetsk, on Monday, the airport captured by the militants was released. At the same time, aviation was used. Fighting on Monday and Tuesday also went in other areas of Donetsk and Lugansk regions.