The situation in Ukraine is still tense: today there were reports of artillery attacks on the territory near the airport of Donetsk. Kiev accused the separatists of shelling the territories under their control.
Artillery firing near the Donetsk airport and in the nearby village of Elenkovo resumed this night. According to information published by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the separatists began to fire at their positions and ended up in a kindergarten. This information was immediately picked up by Reuters, while showing a satellite photograph of some military base, from which, according to the agency, the Russian Federation did not withdraw its troops.
Images show Russian military activity near Ukraine still high – satellite firm https://t.co/5tLdw926a2 pic.twitter.com/0uCOkLEazR
Images show Russian military activity near Ukraine still high – satellite firm https://t.co/5tLdw926a2 pic.twitter.com/0uCOkLEazR
— Reuters (@Reuters) February 17, 2022
“>February 17, 2022
Readers noted to the agency that, firstly, the photo was clearly not taken now, because it is winter and it is snowing there, and secondly, there is no reference to the area. And in general, it can be anyone’s military base located anywhere.
“Today, Russian infidels in Donbas fired 29 times on Ukrainian positions. One serviceman was wounded,” the Ukrainian edition reports. new time. Also, civilian objects fell under mortar attacks: a kindergarten, a school and a railway station in the Lugansk region.
In particular, Stanitsa Luhanska and the Kondrashevskaya-Novaya railway station located there, as well as the village of Vrubovka, were affected.
“Russian-occupation forces are shelling the positions of Ukrainian soldiers in the Donbas.” This was announced on Facebook by the editor-in-chief Censor.NO Yuri Butusov. “At 10 a.m., artillery of the Russian invaders of caliber 152 and 122 mm began shelling Ukrainian positions in the Donetsk region – more than 50 shells. The shelling continues,” the report says. Also this morning, Russian troops fired artillery and mortars at residential areas of Stanytsia-Lugansk. “Propagandists on all channels talk about Russian “peacefulness”. This is what it really is,” the journalist summed up, the Ukrainian edition reports. Censor.
At the moment of shelling a child garden on #Luhansk region 20 children themselves were taken off in the distance on another version.
Luckily, there are few victims among the victims. Proteo three practitioners in the cage – two women and a man – took contusions.
On the video – footage of the evacuation. pic.twitter.com/gRfZKWtitY
— National Police (@NPU_GOV_UA)
At the moment of shelling a child garden on #Luhansk region 20 children themselves were taken off in the distance on another version.
Luckily, there are few victims among the victims. Proteo three practitioners in the cage – two women and a man – took contusions.
On the video – footage of the evacuation. pic.twitter.com/gRfZKWtitY
— National Police (@NPU_GOV_UA) February 17, 2022
“>February 17, 2022
The Ukrainian police in their tweet reported the details of the shelling of the children’s garden.
“At the time of the shelling of a kindergarten in the Luhansk region, 20 children were just having breakfast in the dining room on the second floor. Fortunately, there were no injuries among the kids. However, three kindergarten workers – two women and a man – received shell shock. The video shows footage of the evacuation.”
Headquarters of Ukrainian troops in Donbass declaredthat the building of the kindergarten was damaged during the shelling of Stanytsia Luganskaya by the “Russian occupation forces”, two adults were injured. Photos of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the scene, where severe damage to the kindergarten is visible, fully coincide with those previously published in the LPR. The source of these pictures is not clear. In the LPR and DPR, they now say that this is a pre-prepared fake, reports the Ukrainian edition. Sign.
Residents of Donetsk did not see anything unusual in the renewed shelling. According to them, which is quoted by the publication News, previously shelling, like the current one, happened regularly. “I don’t see anything unusual, the last time they shot like that was in January,” one of the eyewitnesses commented on what was happening.
According to local journalist Vladislav Ugolny, nothing serious is happening at the moment. After a lull, these shellings seem to be the harbingers of an escalation, but this cannot be said for sure. “The shelling only means that the frontline areas are being shelled again and the people living there are suffering. Globally, nothing has changed yet,” he said.
The representative of the People’s Militia of the LPR Andrey Marochko wrote in his personal Telegram channel “Marochko Live” that, as of 10.30 on February 17, the JCCC recorded 20 ceasefire violations by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He explained that 10 were produced – LPR and DPR, listing them:
in the LNR. At 05.32 a.m. Kryakovka – n.p. Sokolniki using mortars of 120-mm caliber (5 min) and SPG-9 (9 shots). At 05.35 a.m. Zolote-4 – n.p. Zolote-5 used: SPG-9 (7 shots), AGS-17 (32 shots), heavy machine gun. At 05.38 a.m. Stanitsa Luganskaya – n.p. Cheerful – 12 minutes of 82-mm caliber. At 05.41 a.m. Luhansk – n.p. Lower Lozovoye – 15 minutes of 120-mm caliber. At 05.57 from the area of N. p. Nizhne was subjected to shelling of the settlement. Donetsk 15 min caliber 120 mm. At 08.55 a.m. Old Aydar – n.p. Raevka – 5 min caliber 120 mm. At 08.59 a.m. Crimean – n.p. Sokolniki using AGS-17 (15 shots). At 09.08 n.p. Novotoshkovskoye – n.p. Donetsk – 5 mines of 120-mm caliber. At 09.16 a.m. Crimean – n.p. Sokolniki – BMP-1 (2 shots), SPG-9 (2 shots) and AGS-17 (15 shots). At 09.18 a.m. Svetlodarsk – n.p. Lozovoe – 10 min caliber 120 mm.
in the DNR. At 05:55 a.m. Vodyanoye – n.p. Kominternovo fired 2 LNG grenades and 20 AGS grenades. At 05:57 a.m. Pischevik – n.p. October 20 AGS grenades were fired, small arms were also used. At 06:58 a.m. Starognatovka – n.p. Petrovskoye – 8 mines of 120-mm caliber. At 07:42 a.m. Starognatovka – n.p. Novolaspa – 12 min caliber 120 mm. At 08:24 a.m. Starognatovka – n.p. Novolaspa fired 20 AGS grenades. At 08:25 a.m. Taramchuk – n.p. Yelenovka, large-caliber machine guns were used. At 08:26 a.m. Glorious – n.p. Signal used heavy machine guns. At 08:30 a.m. Leninskoye – n.p. Gorlovka (settlement sh-you named after Gagarin) -16 mines of 82-mm caliber. At 09:00 a.m. Majorsk – n.p. Gorlovka (settlement sh-you named after Izotov) – 16 mines of 82-mm caliber. At 09:32 a.m. Bogdanovka – n.p. Petrovskoye: 20 AGS grenades fired. The Telegram channel Inside Donetsk noted, referring to the statement of the NM of the DPR, that after the APU began shelling, the defenders of the DPR opened fire in response to suppress enemy firing points and protect civilians.
Footage from the village of the Trudovskaya mine in the west of Donetsk: heavy shelling from Ukraine is heard.
At the same time, the daily report of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission states that they have not yet recorded an increase in tension on the line of contact in Donbass. pic.twitter.com/EPlAvDquas
— Uncle Misha (@ZDE6WuQdGimp6Us)
Footage from the village of the Trudovskaya mine in the west of Donetsk: heavy shelling from Ukraine is heard.
At the same time, the daily report of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission states that they have not yet recorded an increase in tension on the line of contact in Donbass. pic.twitter.com/EPlAvDquas
— Uncle Misha (@ZDE6WuQdGimp6Us) February 17, 2022
“>February 17, 2022
In addition, Russian military correspondent Yuri Kotenok confirmed on the Voenkor Kotenok Telegram channel that since the morning of February 17, Donbass has been really restless: Locals report almost fifty arrivals in the DPR and 2 times more in the LPR. The Ukrainian military uses grenade launchers, 82-mm and 120-mm mortars. Against this background, units of the People’s Militia were ordered to return fire. According to the mayor of the city, Ivan Prikhodko, 16 82-mm mines were thrown into the villages of the Izotov and Gagarin mines. According to sources in the LPR, in the area of the settlement. Zolote marked the armored fist of the Armed Forces of Ukraine – about 50 tanks. Hospitals and morgues in Donetsk are being put under martial law. Artillery shelling continues. Explosions are heard in the center of Donetsk. Sources in the DPR: The positions of the People’s Militia in the area of the Donetsk airport are being shelled with a caliber of 152 mm. Apparently, the organizers of the provocation still have hopes that the war will “the last Ukrainian” nevertheless, it will begin, and these provocations are aimed precisely at this.
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