In Donetsk and Lugansk, power supply was partially disabled

In Donetsk, more than 70 transformer substations remain de-energized, the press service of the City Council reports . Several microdistricts of the city continue to be without power supply. On the night of Monday, the sounds of explosions, a volley of heavy guns were heard throughout the city.

On Sunday, Lugansk was again disconnected from electricity, according to the City Council website. There is no light in the city, water, mobile and city communications do not work. In the morning, the shelling of residential quarters from heavy artillery continues. Lugansk social sphere objects are also shelling.

The command of the anti -terrorist operation has published information about humanitarian corridors for the release of residents of Donetsk, Lugansk and Gorlovka. Every day from 10:00 to 14:00 local time at a distance of 200 meters from these corridors, fire is stopped. "Persons who violate the norms of international humanitarian law in relation to civilians (hold the civilian population in the combat area, impede the exit on humanitarian corridors), are considered military criminals and are persecuted according to international laws," the report emphasizes.

The militants overnight 15 times fired a number of positions of the forces of the Ukrainian military in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, the ATO press center reports . Tanks and installations "Grad" were used. In three cases, shelling is recorded from the Russian territory.

On Monday night in Kharkov, unknown people fired at the regional military registration and enlistment office from the flamethrower. It is reported by Zn.ua with reference to the head of the regional media center of the Ministry of Defense Dmitry Gorbunov. "At 2:35, unknown faces shot from a flamethrower of the bombing of the" bumblebee "from the flamethrower. In addition, an automatic queue of five to six rounds was made towards the first floor of the facade part. As a result, none of the employees was injured. The entrance doors were damaged, as well as the windows were knocked out," Gorbunov said.

Ukrainian troops achieved significant success in the fight against pro -Russian separatists. This evening on Sunday, the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Valery Geletey stated in an interview with the BBC. According to the minister, the Ukrainian army is close to victory over the separatists. However, despite the serious losses among the militants, their number is still about 15 thousand people, he noted, adding that new reinforcements arrive on Ukraine from Russia on a regular basis.

According to Geletei, there is a strategy to take control of a large territory, in which in particular, the Boeing-777 crash is located. However, the strategy will not yet be implemented due to experts located there.

On July 31, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine published an interception of a telephone conversation between the leader of the Donetsk terrorists Igor Girkin and the militant commander having a call sign Cap. In this conversation, Girkin actually confirmed the shelling of ATO forces by Russian artillery .

When discussing the operation to capture the terrorists of Shakhtersk and the village of Shevchenko, the suburbs of Krasnoarmeysk, the “DPR defense minister” told the interlocutor: “Well, let's act. Russian artillery covers you from the south. And while we have a night while reserves are approaching, you must clean everything there.” The published audio is not dated, but the content of the conversation allows us to conclude that he was conducted in recent days.