
The militants of the DPR received great reinforcements from Russia. This was stated by the new "prime minister" of the self-proclaimed "Donetsk People's Republic, Alexander Zakharchenko. A video recording of his speeches at the press conference last on the eve of you was published on YouTube.
Zakharchenko said that the DPR received a reinforcement of 1,200 personnel. They, according to him, have been training in Russia for four months. In addition, the militants received 150 units of equipment, including 30 tanks. “The reserves were introduced at the most crucial moment,” he said.
In addition, Zakharchenko said that the corridor between the DPR and the LPR was established. At the same time, he admitted that attempts to recapture the tracking of the track, the village of Krasny Ray were unsuccessful "due to a lack of ammunition."
The “humanitarian convoy” of Putin is designed to divert attention from real military supplies to terrorists from Russia, said Anton Gerashchenko, adviser to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. “While we are spending time discussing this convoy, dozens of armored vehicles and kamazov with militants crossed the border every night without any PR and accumulate in the Snezhnoye-Torera and Lugansk area. Purpose is the concentration of Putin’s terrorists to apply counterattacks in the Debaltsevo-Yenakievo area to regain control of the Donetsk-Lugansk highway,” He wrote.
On Saturday night , the militants tried to regain their previously lost positions near Lugansk and in the direction of Shakhtersk-Snezhnoye. At the same time, heavy armored vehicles were used. However, all attacks were repelled by government forces.
The Russian “humanitarian convoy” of 262 Kamazov is currently located in the Russian territory in Kamensk-Shakhtinsky. On Friday, 41 representatives of the State Border Service of Ukraine and 18 customs officers arrived at Donetsk borderpost . As expected, the movement of the convoy will begin no earlier than in a few days.
On Friday, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, in a telephone conversation with British Prime Minister David Cameron, confirmed the messages of Western correspondents about the penetration of a column of military equipment from Russia from Russia. "The president said that this information is reliable and confirmed, since a significant part of this technique was destroyed by Ukrainian artillery at night," the president’s website said.
On Thursday evening, Western journalists reported that the column of Russian armored vehicles crossed the Ukrainian border . The Guardian correspondent saw 23 armored personnel carriers, accompanied by military trucks, entered Ukrainian territory on a border section that Kyiv authorities did not control. With the onset of darkness, the BTRA crossed the border in the place where there was no barbed wire, the British journalist specified. This information was confirmed by his colleague from The Telegraph.
On Friday, representatives of the FSB border service and the Russian Ministry of Defense said that no column crossed the border of Ukraine.