10 paratroopers died near Shakhtersky during shelling by terrorists

10 military from the 25th separate Dnipropetrovsk airborne brigade died on Thursday evening south of Shakhtersk when shelling terrorists. This was reported by the ATO press center. According to Gromadsky TB, among the dead - the commander of the 2nd battalion of the brigade.

The number of the wounded is not exactly known; It is only reported that it is very large. As the Gromadske TB transmitted, the wounded are sent on helicopters to Dnepropetrovsk. Meanwhile, the ATO press center states that all the military are bred to the rear. In addition, the bodies of 8 out of 10 dead were taken out of the scene.

On the morning of Friday, Gromadske TB stated that the dead security forces are twice as much as 21 people. It is possible that the overestimated data are due to the problem of identifying the bodies of the abority, which was reported by the Press Center of the ATO. Many terrorists are dressed in Ukrainian uniform without insignia, security officials explained, since it can be bought anywhere .

The military fired from the rocket systems "Grad". Earlier, the ATO press center reported that the security forces column performed relocation and was in the ambush.

“They just called me from the Bruno Santos unit,” the interlocutor of the Gromadsky TB said on Thursday. “They are pouring on them on four sides“ Grads ”. They said goodbye. They said there is no chance. No one brought anything to them, there was no reinforcement and supplies.”

Nevertheless, the military repulsed the terrorists.

On Monday night, it became known that the forces of the ATO entered Shakhtersk . Soon, the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs intercepted the telephone negotiations of the leader of the Donetsk terrorists Igor Girkin and the commander of the detachment fighting at the front line. Girkin convinced the interlocutor of the need to knock the security forces out of the city. “Russian artillery covers you from the south,” the terrorist noted, among other things.

This week, a video appeared on the Web, on which terrorists fired at Shakhtersk with mines with the name of the Russian Patriot, Andrei Kashin, with the money of which shells were bought. It was claimed that the militants fired at the residential quarters of the city.