The situation in the Donetsk People’s Republic remains tense.

    

Over the past day the Ukrainian military shelled the territory of the Republic 230 times in thirty-sixviolations of the ceasefire. In the shellings the enemy used 122mm mortars one time, 122mm mortars 104 times, 82mm mortars 105 times, 100mm anti-tank towed cannons MT-12 ‘Rapira’six times. The enemy also used infantry fighting vehicles, as well as different types of grenade launchers, anti-aircraft systems and small arms.

Over the week the Ukrainian side violated the ceasefire 259 times. In total the chasteners shelled the territory of the Republic 1433 times, including a thousand shellings from heavy weapons.

The most intensive shellings, including from the heavy weapons prohibited by the Minsk Agreements, were applied to the localities of Zaitsevo, Spartak, Staromikhailovka, Zhabunky, Dokuchayevsk, Vesyoloye, the area of the Airport and theVolvo Centre, as well as the Petrovsky and Kuibyshevsky districts of the city of Donetsk.

As a result of the AFU shellings there got wounded a girl born in 1989, two residential houses were destroyed, and four power substations in the Petrovsky district of the city of Donetsk temporarily stopped their work, and the school No. 15 in the locality ofZaitsevo was damaged.

I want to draw attention to the fact that the continuing shellings of the residential quarters of the cities and localities of the Republic indicate only one thing: Kiev doesn’t want to fulfil the Minsk agreements.

About all the violations and provocations on the part of the AFU and National Guard we inform the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission. At the same time the refusal of the OSCE Mission’s Representatives to come and record the purposeful shelling of the school No. 15 in the locality of Zaitsevo isn’t clear to us. Is it more important for them to monitor the check points? But their work isn’t observed there either. The Ukrainian party constantly and unreasonably whips up tension around these check points, accusing of it the Armed Forces of the DPR. The Ukrainian party artificially creates the miles-long queues near the Mayorsk check point for the purpose of introduction of the economic and humanitarian blockade of the Republic.

Besides, the OSCE Representatives for some reason refuse to register the forbidden arms, tanks and artillery of the AFU in the buffer zone, as well as the performance of engineering works in Shirokino, Vodyanoye, Pavlopol, Gnutovo, Pishchevik, in the areas of the localities of Yasinovataya, Zheleznaya and Shirokaya Balka, Zaitsevo. The people crossing the check points see everything with their own eyes and are afraid of this AFU’s preparation for the next round of hostilities.

There are also questions concerning the work of the AFU representatives in the JCCC. We don’t see their aspiration to help forward the ceasefire along the contact line. The JCCC Representatives from the Ukrainian party continue evaluating the violations of the ceasefire regime in a biased way, accusing the DPR and covering up the violations committed by the AFU. Besides, the AFU representatives receive the data they are using from the front line, and not from their observers what is forbidden by the JCCC instruction. Thus, except representation of false charges during the everyday reports of the OSCE Mission on shellings of the localities from the territory under the control of the DPR, the Ukrainian party has no other concerns.

Today I would like to draw your attention to the fact that despite the existing ceasefire regime and the prohibition to use the heavy weapons, the AFU have planned another bloody provocation.

Our intelligence established the fact of developing in the AFU units of the so-called mobile mortar squads armed with 120 and 82mm mortars, installed on the vehicles. The task of such subversive groups is to set out rapidly, carry out the shelling (including of their own units or residential quarters) and to drive away quickly. The appearance of such squads may indicate that the military-political command is not determined to solve the conflict in a peaceful way, and tries to blow up the fire of the civil war in Donbass. In our turn, we will monitor the situation and make efforts to head off and prevent the loss of the civilians as a result of these Kiev’s mean and treacherous methods.

There increased the attempts of the Ukrainian military-political command to undermine the situation on the territory of the Republic. There is constantly held redeployment of subverters with the purpose of carrying out terrorist acts against the civilians of the Republic.

During the operative actions on the eve of the holiday of The Defender of the Fatherland the Ministry of State Security detected a cache in which there were registered about 150 kg of explosives, 17 various types of grenades and about 1600 ammunition of various caliber. One can just imagine how much grief would bring to people the actions of the Ukrainian diversionary and retaliatory groups.

This night took place another terroristic act against the young Republic. Near the locality of Telmanovo by the incendiary there was fired the fuel tank of the vehicle ensuring the functioning of the TV and radio station, therefore there occurred an ignition and the telecasting of the local channels was temporarily stopped. The Prosecutor’s Office and the experts of the Ministry of Communications are performing activities for prevention of similar acts and the fastest resumption of the TV broadcasting.

Our intelligence obtained the data on preparation by the Ukrainian command of a number of the forged documents aimed at accusing the DPR Armed Forces of the gross violations of the Minsk agreements during the upcoming meetings of the ‘Normandy Four’ Foreign Ministers. Besides, there were established the facts of manufacturing of false documents for intrusion of the Ukrainian special services into the territory of the young Republics, commission of the subversive and terrorist acts, as well as collecting intelligence information. The manufacture of the forged seals was set up, among others, in one of the headquarters of the contingency force ‘Donetsk’ near the locality of Artyomovsk.

According to our intelligence, in terms of isolation of the DPR by the Ukrainian authorities there is established the fact of planned undermining by the fighters of the Volunteer Ukrainian Corps The Right Sector of the vehicle belonging to the 54th separate mechanized brigade of the AFU by the high-explosive shell with a purpose of justifying the necessity to close the Zaitsevo check point. According to the preliminary data two Ukrainian militarymen received injuries as a result of the sabotage. The transportation of the wounded AFU servicemen to Artyomovsk, Zelenaya Street 38, was carried out by the Medical Officer of the 54th separate mechanized AFU brigade Mikhail Schmit.

And in the conclusion, we continue giving forth the facts of larceny of public funds in the AFU ranks. In particular, there was revealed the scheme of writing-off the finance which were received less by the military personnel of the AFU serving in the anti-terrorist operation zone. In collusion of the representative of financial and economic management of the Ukrainian land forces’ command Timenovsky with the officer of the 54 separate mechanized brigade of the AFU Mantsur there is realized the scheme of withdrawal of the large sums into the special accounts in The Privat bank. Besides, for implementation of this scheme the representatives of the financial bodies of the military units of the 54th brigade have an arrangement with the units’ commanders on the prejudiced attitude towards the subordinates for deprivation of the part of their monetary allowance which is then stolen.