The situation in the Donetsk People’s Republic deteriorated abruptly.

Over the past day the Ukrainian military shelled the territory of the Republic 582 times. The enemy launched 135 artillery shells of 152mm calibre, 46 tank shells, 244 shells of 120mm calibre, 120 shells of 82mm calibre. In addition, the enemy carried out the bombardments with infantry fighting vehicles, grenade launchers and small arms.

The enemy opened fire at the following localities: Ozeryanovka, Mayorsk, Zaitsevo, Yakovlevka, Azotny, Yasinovataya, Dokechayevsk, the Kiyevsky district, the Kuibyshevsky district, the Petrovsky district and the airport of Donetsk city.

The punishers of the 128th separate mountain infantry battalion and the 58th separate motorised infantry brigade conducted the most intensive bombardments from large-caliber artillery of the Kuibyshevsky and Kiyevsky district of Donetsk,Chervonogvardeisky and the Kirovsky district of the town of Makeyevka and the locality of Yasinovataya.

Despite the big orthodox holiday celebrated today – The Ascension of Christ, with bitterness and pain we report about the casualties of the new bloody crime of the fascist regime of Poroshenko.

As a result of the massive fire of the Ukrainian artillery one civilian died and 15 got wounded, 44 housing constructions got seriously damaged. The entire families fell victims to the criminals. The Nizhnets family sustained severe wounds and injuries, the three-year-old child Nizhnets Ilya Olegovich is in intensive care together by mother. Criminal and brutal orders to fire at the cities were given by the commanders of the 128th and 58th brigades, Shaptalo and Zabolotny. However, it is clear that they received the command for massive application of artillery from the headquarters of the so-called anti-terrorist operation.

There are losses in the units of the Republic’s People’s Militia: one soldier died and one got wounded.

The criminal orders to shell out units and the territory of the Republic were given by the brigade commanders Sokolov, Voilokov, Delyatitsky, and Vodolazsky.

We passed all the data about the Minsk Agreements violations to representatives of the OSCE and JCCC and carry out joint laborious work on recording the war crimes. Fair punishment has to overtake executioners of the Donbass people.

Besides, our intelligence continues reporting the amassing of the enemy’s prohibited weapons and personnel along the contact line, that might also be involved in the bombardments:

– In Mayorsk (1,5 km away from the contact line) there was detected the 122mm mortar firing position;

– In Dzerzhinsk (5 km away from the contact line) there were detected three motorised artillery mounts;

– In Novobakhmutovka (10 km away from the contact line) there were detected six120mm mortars;

– In Novosyelovka Vtoraya (8 km away from the contact line) there were detectedthree 82mm mortars.

We urge the population and People’s Militia personnel to increase vigilance and readiness for reflection of provocations on the part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Vice-Commander of the DPR Defense Ministry operative command Donetsk Eduard Basurin, official translation by DONi News Agency