De rebellen schoten met 82 en 120 millimeter mortieren, granaatwerpers, zware mitrailleurs, geweren en vanuit pantserwagens op de soldaten bij Marjinka, Avdiivka en de dorpen Piski, Opitne, Verchniotoretske, Pavlopil, Novoloehanske, Krimske, Choetir Vilni en Zajtseve. Het dorp Novoloehsnke werd beschoten met 152 millimeter artillerie. Een woning raakte beschadigd. De rebellen zouden meerdere drones hebben ingezet voor verkenningsvluchten. Vier daarvan werden uit de lucht geschoten.
De separatisten in Loehansk melden vijf aanvallen van het Oekraïense leger op hun posities bij Zolotoje-5, Froenze, Molodzhnoje en Sokolniki. Het leger zou daarbij 82 en 120 millimeter mortieren en geweren hebben gebruikt.
Aanvoerder Eduard Basoerin van de rebellen in Donetsk gaf vanmorgen een persconferentie waarop hij sprak van ''een dramatische toename'' van de dagelijkse aantallen aanvallen van het Oekraïense leger. Het zou gaan om maar liefst 173 aanvallen op 23 dorpen en buurtschappen.
Bronnen: Unian, DAN, Lugansk Media Centre
JFO: Three Ukrainian
soldiers wounded in action in Donbas in past day
09:49, 15 February 2019
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Two invaders were killed and another four were injured in the past day,
intelligence reports say.
REUTERS
REUTERS
Russia's hybrid military forces in the past 24 hours mounted 12 attacks
on Ukrainian army positions in Donbas, with three Ukrainian soldiers
reported as wounded in action (WIA).
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"Three Ukrainian soldiers were wounded in the past day. According to
intelligence reports, two invaders were killed and another four were
wounded," the press center of Ukraine's Joint Forces Operation (JFO)
said in an update published on Facebook as of 07:00 Kyiv time on
February 15, 2019.
Russian occupation forces opened fire from 120mm and 82mm mortars,
weapons installed on infantry fighting vehicles, grenade launchers of
various types, heavy machine guns, and small arms, attacking the
defenders of the towns of Maryinka and Avdiyivka, and the villages of
Pisky, Opytne, Verkhniotoretske, Pavlopil, Novoluhanske, Krymske, Khutir
Vilniy, and Zaitseve.
What is more, early on February 14, the enemy employed 152mm artillery
systems, while attacking the village of Novoluhanske, as a result of
which a shell hit a house. Ukrainian members of the Joint Control and
Coordination Center (JCCC) are checking information about possible
damage.
"On February 14, the enemy also actively used unmanned aerial vehicles
for artillery calls for fire. However, four of them were shot down by
Ukrainian defenders," reads the report.
"Since Friday midnight, Russian-led forces haven't attacked Ukrainian
positions yet," the report said.
Read more on UNIAN: https://www.unian.info/war/10447350-jfo-three-ukrainian-soldiers-wounded-in-action-in-donbas-in-past-day.html
Read more on UNIAN: https://www.unian.info/war/10447350-jfo-three-ukrainian-soldiers-wounded-in-action-in-donbas-in-past-day.html
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