Battle for Mariupol

Russian equipment continues to arrive in Eastern Ukraine

Despite the agreement on the ceasefire, reached by presidents Vladimir Putin and Peter Poroshenko on September 3, Russian equipment continues to arrive in Eastern Ukraine, and rebel detachments in which many Russian citizens are fighting are prepared for the assault on Mariupol.

The New Times correspondent spent the night with separatists in the troops of the self -proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) of the village of Starobeshevo, Donetsk region, climbed a high -rise, which, apparently, was defeated by the camp of the Russian army, and also collided with the convoy military equipment that arrived from the Rostov region.
Details - on Monday, September 8, in the new issue of The New Times.

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Here was a camp of three tanks with white paint numbers covered with white paint, like on August 25, 331 regiments of the 98th Guards Svir Airborne Division, 10 paratroopers of which were detained by Ukrainian Armed Forces. Around the trenches and dugouts, boxes from the dryers of the Russian army are scattered, which you do not often meet at the DPR militia.

September 3, the track between the villages of Kumachovo and the culture of the Donetsk region, 10 km from the Russian-Ukrainian border.

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"Hello for journalists" from the military who took off from the parking lot, around - all the same dryers of the Russian army. September 3, the track between the villages of Kumachovo and the culture of the Donetsk region, 10 km from the Russian-Ukrainian border.

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According to the sources of The New Times, on a high-rise near the village of Novokaterinovka, Donetsk region, the same 331 regiment of the 98th Airborne Forces from Kostroma, as well as the 19th separate motorized rifle brigade from Nizhny Novgorod. The total number of personnel is 1600 people, 200 units of equipment. The information, however, could not be verified: when the correspondent of The New Times arrived at the hill, the locals said that "the Russians starred yesterday, going towards Mariupol." On the site of the camp there were only forgotten ammunition, three non -working BMPs of the Ukrainian army (the skyscraper passed from hand to hand) and all the same dryers.

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The contents of the dryers of the Russian army. September 3, a height next to the village of Novokaterinovka, Donetsk region.

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The DPR militia fighter protects the abandoned ammunition. September 3, a height next to the village of Novokaterinovka, Donetsk region.

** Photo: Sergey Khazov-Cassia, The New Times ****

In recent days, despite the agreement on the humanitarian corridor for the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Ilovaisk troops, in the Donetsk region, battles did not stop. In the photo there is a random victim of the shelling on the highway between the villages of Olginskoye and Novoivanovka. Fighters of the DPR asked journalists to post a photo on the Internet so that the relatives of the deceased could see him.

100 meters from this fresh grave - three unlimited corpses of Ukrainian troops who died as a result of the same shelling, 500 meters in the other direction - the corpse of a Ukrainian tanker, knocked out of the car by an explosive wave hung on the wires of power lines. Nobody buys them, and the fighters of the DPR joke over the "parachutist" hanging on the wires. Not far away, the sounds of the battle were heard again. September 3.