Rebellen vallen 21 maal aan, 70-jarige gedood

De pro-Russische rebellen hebben het leger gisteren 21 maal aangevallen. Het leger beantwoordde vrijwel alle aanvallen met een tegenaanval. Er waren geen slachtoffers aan Oekraïense zijde, aldus de legerleiding. Wel werd in de provincie Loehansk een 70-jarige man dodelijk getroffen bij een granaataanval van de rebellen.

De soldaten bij de kolenmijn Boetivka in de omgeving van Donetsk kregen het het zwaarst te verduren. Zij werden aangevallen met granaatwerpers, zware machinegeweren en pantserwagens. De versterkte legerposities aan de zuidkant van de stad Avdiivka en bij het dorp Loehanske werden tweemaal beschoten met raketaangedreven granaten.

In de omgeving van Marioepol schoten de rebellen met zware machinegeweren en granaatwerpers op de versterkte legerposities bij Vodiane. In de provincie Loehansk waren er in de avonduren aangevallen met geweervuur en granaatwerpers op soldaten bij de dorpen Novo-Oleksandrivka, Stanitsja Loehanska en Novotoshkivkse.

Bron: Unian

Militants shell Ukraine forces 21 times in last day – ATO HQ Russian-occupation forces after 18:00 on Thursday, August 3, have somewhat intensified fire on Ukrainian positions in Donbas, mostly from small arms, the press center of the ATO Headquarters wrote on Facebook. War 10:00, 04 August 2017 36 READ LATER REUTERS REUTERS The most aggressive provocations were reported on the Donetsk line where the enemy for almost two hours shelled the Ukrainian defenders of Butivka coal mine from grenade launchers, heavy machine guns, and IFV-installed weapons. Strong points on the southern outskirts of Avdiyivka and outside the village of Luhanske were shelled from rocket-propelled grenade launchers twice. In the Luhansk direction in the evening, the armed gangs used small arms and grenade launchers outside Novo-oleksandrivka, Stanytsia Luhanska, and Novotoshkivske. Read also Turchynov inspects Russian TV jamming system along contact line in Donbas In the direction of Mariupol, the enemy fired from the large-caliber machine guns and grenade launchers on the Ukrainian fortified positions in Vodiane. "It should be added that over the past day, the ATO forces returned fire in response to almost every provocative shelling by the militants, forcing the enemy to ‘peace,’ so most of the fire contacts were not long ones," the press service said. In general, over the past day, illegal armed groups violated the truce 21 times. Three times the enemy used mortars, 14 times - grenade launchers, and one time they hit from IFV-installed arms. As reported earlier, a 70-year-old civilian man was killed in a militant shelling in Luhansk region. There were no losses among the Ukrainian military.

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