Sensation of the mousetrap

Ukrainian troops continue the operation in the east of the country. Explosions are heard in Donetsk, in Lugansk - new shelling

Over the past day in the Donetsk region, 19 civilians became victims of hostilities. More than 30 were injured, according to the website of the Donetsk regional administration. The press service of the special operation in eastern Ukraine states that the losses of government forces per day amounted to 10 killed and more than 50 wounded. The Ukrainian army took control of the city of Avdeevka in the Donetsk region. The battles continue in the cities of Ilovaisk and Pervomaisk. The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine claims that troops do not use heavy equipment, artillery and aviation to prevent victims among the civilians. The Ukrainian military refutes information about a military aircraft allegedly shot down by separatists near Khartsyz in the Donetsk region - according to them, the aircraft managed to get away from aiming the Buk system. Earlier, a shot down aircraft with reference to eyewitnesses was reported on social networks.

On Wednesday, the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine confirmed the information about the execution by separatists of the bus with refugees, as a result of which the child died. This was announced by the representative of the NSDC information center Andrei Lysenko, who is quoted by the Ukrainian media. "The information was confirmed that the terrorists killed the child yesterday, another 10 people were wounded. This happened during the shelling of the bus, on which the inhabitants of Donetsk tried to go to a safe area," Lysenko said. Earlier, the Russian ITAR-TASS agency with reference to the representative of the Southeast Front information center Konstantin Knyrik reported that during the shelling of refugees with refugees in eastern Ukraine, a three-year-old child died on Tuesday and another twelve people received firearms. Knyrik assigned the responsibility for the shelling of the bus and the death of the child on the Ukrainian military.

According to them, the separatists are trying to return the lost positions in the area of Donetsk and Gorlovka. The positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near the village of Dubrovka were attacked at night with the support of seven tanks, said Dmitry Tymchuk, head of the Center for Military-Political Research. On the eve of the Ukrainian military liberated the village of Debaltseve in the Donetsk region. The situation in Donetsk, around which the ring of the Ukrainian military is compressed, remains tense. In the morning, local residents and representatives of the city administration reported that explosions were heard in the city. Several areas of the city are left without electricity. According to the Ukrainian media, all Ukrainian television channels, including entertaining ones, were disabled in Donetsk.

On Wednesday morning, the separatists distributed information about shot down in the Donetsk region near the Khartsyz Ukrainian military aircraft. Representatives of the Ukrainian Armed Forces refuted this, clarifying that they were really aiming from the Buk complex, but he managed to get away from aiming. About the situation in the Donetsk region and Donetsk, where the ATO of the Ukrainian military takes place, says the editor -in -chief of the Donbass News of the Donbass: Alexey Matsuka :

- We have no official information that we have not been shot down. There are reports of the ATO headquarters that not a single plane of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the war zone was shot down. I think that the practice of separatists is very simple, it does not change - this is information manipulations, the spread of gossip, lies and the constant deception of the local population.

The practice of separatists is very simple, it does not change - it is informational manipulations, the spread of gossip, lies and the constant deception of the local population

For example, some residents of the Donetsk region call me from the Priazov region, which has now been released, but there is no normal Internet signal, and people are simply bewildered: "What, they already bombed Shcherbakov’s park in Donetsk? People lay on the beach, and they all killed with shells there." That is, the fables spread with colossal power, and there are no confirmation to all these rumors. In the same way as those rumors who talked about Boeing's shot down, that there were already corpses, that is, complete nonsense! They turned off all the media in the city of Donetsk, not a single printed newspaper is released, except for the city newspaper, the municipal newspaper, which is published for the money of the budget of the city of Donetsk, and it is headed by one of the ministers of the so -called DPR Elena Blocha. Everything else is blocked, there are no media. And in Donetsk, a leaflet called "Novorossia" is still spreading, where the lists of those who shoot the DPR for looting and betrayal of the ideals of the Donetsk People’s Republic are published. I do not know how true this leaflet is, but the surnames, names, date of birth, address of living executed through the execution of people are published there.

- During the ATO, civilians continue to die and receive injuries. The day before, there was a message that several children were blown up by a mine ... Is this so and how relevant is this problem now for the Donetsk region?

- I will clarify that in the morning there was information - this is the village of Berestovoye, Artemovsky district. Seven people were blown up on a mine, three of whom were children. The youngest was a year and two months. Children and adults are now in serious condition, and doctors are doing something, but they are not exporting further than this area. And earlier there was information that Berestovaya children were killed in the village, but this is not so. No one died there. Seven people were blown up on a mine, three of them are children. This is already updated information from the governor of the region.

Separatists use the following tactics: when they retreat, they leave objects of social significance mined, leave mines even in hospitals often and on approaches to schools

Separatists use the following tactics: when they retreat, they leave objects of social significance mined, leave mines even in hospitals often and on the approaches to schools where they dug their ditches, and schools were occupied. And Ukrainian sappers work there all the time, but the separatists expect that even after their retreat, civilians and Ukrainian military will die. In fact, last week in Donetsk there were cars with the inscription "DPR Police", and in the city they joke that we already had our own policemen, as in 1941 the Nazis had in the occupied territories of Ukraine. The same thing now - policemen, tactics of scorched land, hatred of each other appeared on the territory of Donbass. And the conclusions, I think, will make historians.

- When can Donetsk be freed from the separatists?

- We all hope that all this will happen very soon. One of the key dates that walks on the Internet and through the journalistic community, among people, on August 24. This is the Independence Day of Ukraine. Everyone hopes that the Victory Parade in Donetsk, a real Victory Parade, and not like May 9 this year, will be held by this day.

In the territories liberated from the separatists, the military continues to cleanse work. Over the past day, pyrotechnics found and neutralized one stretch with signal missiles and 13 stretch marks with grenades, the State Emergencies Ministry of Ukraine said. In total, 5 anti -tank grenades, 39 stretch marks with grenades and 7 stretch marks with signal missiles are neutralized in Slavyansk. In Lugansk, where shelling continues, one person died in a day, 10 were injured. This was reported by the website of the Lugansk City Council. I talked about the situation of the city with the editor -in -chief of the Real Gazeta publication Andrei Dikhtyarenko :

There is a feeling that they are in the mousetrap, which has already slammed

- Which day in a row firing Lugansk, again there are victims. Yesterday, shells hit the nursing home. And given that recently the work of the railway station has been terminated, people have very much moral difficulties, because there is a feeling that they are in a mousetrap, which has already slammed shut. In this regard, the humanitarian corridor was waiting for the whole day yesterday, which was declared by the ATO forces. Unfortunately, the LPR themselves refuted this data, said that there would be no corridor, it is actually a death corridor, we do not guarantee that Ukrainian troops will not fire him. The corridor was supposed to be north, to the metallist, which is controlled by Ukrainian troops, but the LPR-Versi said that they could guarantee security only by the fact that they would want to go towards Russia, to Krasnodon and Izvarino. Nevertheless, in the evening, official Ukrainian data was informed that 72 people were able to use this corridor and reached the Metalist village, and then got into the territory already liberated by Ukrainian troops.

- That is, you can leave the city now?

- It is possible, but it is very dangerous. No one guarantees that the car will not be fired, but people are at risk, because in Lugansk it is just very difficult to be.

There are interruptions in food, shops work with interruptions, cigarettes almost completely disappeared

There are interruptions in food, stores work with interruptions, cigarettes have almost completely disappeared. Today in the morning the city did not fire, and people went out onto the streets, because many had supplies, and they just rushed to buy something while silence.

- What about the city infrastructure?

- Lugansk doctors and communal workers work absolutely heroically. There are not enough doctors, doctors fall down, drive under fire, save people. Hospitals are crowded. And the communal workers are also trying to leave, even despite the dangerous situation, to eliminate impulses, to repair the light, to restore water supply and so on. In principle, we need to pay tribute to these structures, which largely allow the situation in the city to keep at least some framework and not to roll completely into uncontrollable chaos.