TODAY'S STATEMENT OF DANIIL BEZSONOV, THE OFFICIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE UKRAINE WAR "REBEL" DPR ARMED FORCES

"Over the past day, Ukrainian terrorists continued firing on civilian infrastructure facilities and civilians.

In Donetsk direction, Ukrainian militants attacked Dokuchaevsk, Yasinovataya, Yakovlevka, Vasilyevka and Spartak. At the same time, the enemy fired eight 120 and 82 mm caliber, all types of grenade launchers and small arms were actively used.

In the early morning hours of today, terrorists of the 30th mechanized brigade, commanded by a war criminal Garaz, conducted a deliberate mortar shelling of residential areas in the village Trudovskie, which resulted in fourteen houses being damaged in various ways.

In Dokuchaevsk, four houses were damaged as the result of shelling with the use of 120 and 82 mm mortars.

All information on victims and destruction is being clarified.

In Gorlovka direction, Ukrainian militants fired at the settlement Zaitsevo
from grenade launchers and small arms.

Six facts of violations of the ceasefire regime by Ukrainian occupation forces were recorded in total.

The 92nd separate mechanized brigade of the invaders who recently arrived in the area of Avdeevka continues to struggle with the civilian population. The commander of this armed formation, the well-known war criminal Kokorev, who practically managed to leave 400 thousand inhabitants without water supply, including the population of the Avdeevka he occupied, also aspired to take away human life yesterday.

By order of the bandit Kokorev, village Vasilievka was fired upon. A woman (born in 1992) received a fragmentation wound of the abdominal cavity in the courtyard of her own home as a result of mortar shelling by Ukrainian terrorists.

Ukrainian punishers use 82 mm mortars and sniper weapons there. The fire from the prohibited weapons on civilian settlements is no longer enough for the Ukrainian terrorists. Therefore, Naiev ordered the brigade commanders in their zone of responsibility to attract sniper assassins to aim at civilians in order to achieve guaranteed victims and intimidate the inhabitants of Donbass.

This is the fourth civilian who was wounded as a result of targeted attacks by Ukrainian militants in two days! If we add here the targeted terrorist actions of the occupation forces of Nayev aimed at stopping the work of the Donetsk filtering station, as well as the breaking of power lines and the de-energization of seven settlements in the south of the Republic as a result of the shelling of Ukrainian criminals, we get a very disturbing picture. The statistic shows that the Ukrainian armed forces and their leaders deliberately choose civilian infrastructure and civilians for fire damage. I note that the commander of the Ukrainian occupation forces, Naiev declares his love for the peaceful population and care for people after each bombardment.

We also determined two more leaders of Ukrainian armed groups responsible for the shelling of Sakhanka and Zaitsevo settlements. This shelling resulted in injuring three civilians in the previous day. These are the commanders of the 36th separate marine brigade (fired at Sakhanka) and the 24th separate mechanized brigade (fired at Zaitsevo) the war criminals Gnatov and Gudz.

The military criminal Muzhenko, the Chief of General Staff of the Supreme Armed Forces visited militants from the 93rd separate mechanized brigade. He is one of the main supporters of the military solution to the conflict in the Donbas. In this regard, the commander of the 93rd Brigade Klochkov made demonstrative shooting around the town of Dokuchaevsk. Ukrainian militants did not dare to use heavy weapons in a daytime, for fear of being noticed by the OSCE observers. However, there were enough small arms to inflict damage on Dokuchaevsk's houses at Lenin street 106, Polevaya street 5 and Tsentral'naya street 89. Fortunately, the civilians were not harmed.

I once again want to remind Ukrainian militants that every crime committed by you and your accomplices is fixing. It seems to you that this will always be so and you will avoid responsibility, but you still have the opportunity to stop the bloodshed.

We continue to record the concentration of enemy's combat equipment near the line of contact. This indicates the readiness of the occupying forces to intensify the fighting. At the same time, there is an increase in aerial reconnaissance of the enemy on Gorlovka, Donetsk and Mariupol directions.

It is important to note that due to the professional actions of our units, the majority of the UAV of the occupying forces of Ukraine are knocked down after crossing the line of combat contact. Each drone is valuable for us, due to the fact that it films Ukrainian positions and military equipment on the way of his flight. Downed drones fall into our hands with these files.

Only in the past month, our air defense forces shot down five Ukrainian UAV in the sky over the Republic. Three of them had the useful for us information. We are very grateful to the Ukrainian intelligence officers who are losing drones and constantly supply us with valuable information."