The counterattack of militants in the Donbass failed

On Saturday night, the militants unsuccessfully tried to regain their previously lost positions near Lugansk. This was reported by the head of the group "Information Resistance" Dmitry Tymchuk.

The militants using heavy armored vehicles tried to develop the offensive from the Young Guard of the Luhansk region towards the villages of Khryashchevaty and Novosvetlovka, previously liberated by government forces. "The forces of the ATO were fixed at the boundaries in this area, providing their control over the strategically important M -04 highway, and providing for itself a further opportunity to enter the suburbs of Lugansk from the south with unlocking the Lugansk airport, where our units hold the defense," Tymchuk said.

In the area of ​​the N-21 highway, in the direction of the Shakhtersk-Snemzhnaya militants, they tried to return the lost positions to restore the supply of the group in Donetsk. “These counterattacks were reflected by the ATO forces, however, the further actions of our forces in the area were blocked by the actions of the enemy,” Tymchuk notes.

Active fighting of government forces continue in Enakieva, Gorlovka, Donetsk. “Yesterday, August 15, after imitation of the strike on Ilovaisk and the distraction of the forces of the militants, the forces of the ATO from the south bypassed Mospino (near Donetsk) and surrounded the enemy’s group here,” Tymchuk noted.

In Donetsk over the past night, shells damaged a number of residential buildings, the press service of the Donetsk City Council reports . It was possible to connect 16 thousand inhabitants and the southern water floor to power supply. However, another 40 thousand people are left without light.

According to the press service of the Lugansk City Council, there is no light in Lugansk for two weeks, water, mobile and stationary communications do not work. According to residents, on Saturday night, intensive shelling of the city continued, as a result of which numerous fires occurred, there is destruction.

"The situation with food remains unchanged: there is only the most necessary on sale. The problem of the lack of supplies to the city of medicines and fuel remains in acute. All banks are closed, pensions, salaries, social payments are not paid," the message said.

On Friday, the speaker of the Council of National Security and Defense of Ukraine Andrei Lysenko said that positional battles are underway in Lugansk, the city is almost surrounded . According to him, the final stage of the anti -terrorist operation began in Donetsk.

This stage will not take a day or two, Lysenko emphasized. The militants have accumulated a lot of weapons, including armored vehicles and artillery. Government forces will not use aviation and heavy weapons in residential quarters, said the representative of the National Security and Defense Council.