Story By: Ana Marjanovic, Sub-Editor: Michael Leidig, Agency: Newsflash
This footage shows pro-Russian DPR troops attacking Ukrainian targets near Avdiivka with tanks, rocket systems, and huge howitzers.
The People’s Militia (NM) of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) said they claimed territory in the advancement of Avdiivka in the eastern Ukrainian Donetsk region.
The militia said in a statement on 10th June: “Servicemen of the People’s Militia of the DPR suppressed Ukrainian nationalists in the Avdiivka area.”
“Servicemen of the People’s Militia continue successful operations to liberate their territories. Artillery and tank units of the NM DNR suppressed firing points, the accumulation of enemy equipment and personnel with all possible types of weapons.”
The militia said: “Over the past day, the enemy fired over 400 shells and explosives from artillery systems with a calibre of 155, 152 and 122 mm, Grad multiple launch rocket systems, tanks, and 120-mm mortars.
“The areas of 16 settlements of the Republic were attacked. As a result of the shelling, one civilian was killed and 7 were injured. Meanwhile, 36 residential buildings, five vehicles and nine civilian infrastructure facilities were damaged.
“Materials on the death and injury of civilians, as well as the destruction of civilian infrastructure, will be transferred to the General Prosecutor’s Office of the DPR for inclusion in criminal cases initiated against the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
“Joint actions of the military personnel of the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation destroyed one BM-21 ‘Grad’ MLRS, two tanks, three BTR-2s, two ammunition delivery vehicles, one Ukrainian UAV command post, and over 70 personnel.”
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