22.03.2016, Donetsk.
Ukrainian commanders start preparing to attack Donetsk People’s Republic positions, accumulate military hardware and soldiers in Yasinovataya, Dokuchaevsk and Staromikhaylovka area (all near Donetsk), according to DPR Deputy Defense Minister Eduard Basurin, Donetsk News Agency reports.
“We register the arrival of fresh Ukrainian divisions along almost all of the line set by the Minsk Agreements,” Basurin said.
The Deputy Defense Minister noted that DPR intelligence registers “preparation of Kiev to advance on the aforementioned directions“. “With this goal the enemy constantly provokes the militia to return fire,” Basurin added.
“We wish to warn the military-political authorities of Ukraine that any aggressive attempt of their military against DPR will lead to a new devastating defeat of the Ukrainian army,” the representative of the Defense Ministry noted.
Yasinovataya and Dokuchaevsk are in the suburbs of DPR capital, Staromikhaylovka township is in the western outskirts of Donetsk. It was earlier reported that Ukrainian Defense Ministry ordered the production of five thousand jet engines for reactive infantry flamethrowers, militants prepare for offensive urban combat.
It must be noted that Zaytsevo village north of Gorlovka and the area of Yasinovataya road north of Donetsk remained to be the most “heated” places in Donbass in the past two weeks. Ukrainian military constantly shell and attempt to capture new ground. People continue to die in Ukrainian shelling.
Source: Donetsk News Agency