04.04.2016, Donbass.
American mercenaries took part in shelling towns and villages of Donetsk People’s Republic, DPR Deputy Defense Minister Eduard Basurin said yesterday during his daily briefing in Donetsk News Agency press-center.
“According to intelligence data, facts of activity of mercenaries from the United States were established in 16th battalion, 58th independent motorized infantry brigade. Foreign advisors help Ukrainian servicemen adjust electronic surveillance stations meant for registering artillery shell hits. Ukrainian servicemen were shelling towns and villages of DPR together with American mercenaries to adjust the work of the radar,” Basurin said.
In particular, according to Basurin, Makeevka was shelled this way from the positions of “16th battalion, 58th independent motorized infantry brigade, commander Oleg Gromadsky.“
DPR Defense Minister often informed that Kiev involved foreign mercenaries in the punitive operation against the people of Donbass. Both the crimes of mercenaries against the civil population and the facts of clashes between Ukrainian divisions and mercenaries were registered.
Source: Donetsk News Agency