Tuesday, July 21, 2015
8:51 AM PDT
President vows to
defend Mariupol
(Zik) --- After inspecting a naval military
exercise in the Mykolayiv oblast, Pres Poroshenko vowed to defend the coast and
the strategic Mariupol area, presidential website July 21 report says. He said
he was impressed with the level of training of marines.
Poroshenko declared
his firm commitment to the Minsk
agreements. He said, however, that if the enemy violates the agreements and
attacks, Ukraine
will have the power to defend itself.
Poroshenko said he
will deploy 3 Marines battalions and one artillery division to beef up the defense
of Mariupol. In addition, Ukraine
army will have 36 US-made armoured Humvees vehicles.
Earlier, it was
reported that 100 Humvees had been shipped to Odessa last week. Ukraine army plans to install
anti-tank weapons on Humvees.
Tuesday, July 21, 2015 8:34 AM PDT
(RFE/RL) --- Russia
says ongoing military exercises involving NATO countries in western Ukraine
are "of provocative nature."
The Russian envoy
to NATO, Aleksandr Grushko, said on July 21 that the maneuvers
"disrupt" the process of implementing the Minsk
agreement signed in February and aimed at putting an end to fighting between
government forces and Russian-backed separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine .
Almost 800
Ukrainian soldiers, more than 500 U.S. troops, and 700 other
servicemen from 16 other countries are taking part in the drills that are
expected to last until August 1.
The maneuvers also
involve armoured personnel carriers, helicopters, and other military hardware.
Tuesday, July 21, 2015
8:28 AM PDT
Russian command post
vehicle R-142N discovered in terrorists' training camp on outskirts of Donetsk
(Censor.NET) --- The
command post vehicleR-142N was discovered in the training camp of the
Russian-terrorists' Sparta
battalion.
The equipment was discovered by the team of investigative
journalists from InformNapalm, Censor.NET reports.
The combined radio station R-142N is designed to ensure
troop control and communication organization on the battalion-regiment-division
level. It can operate on move at the speed of up to 40 kilometers per hour (/25
mph) and at a camp site an can be used both independently and as a part of a
communications hub. The equipment of command post vehicle R-142N provides
simplex radio-telephony communication both in open and secure mode.
While on a median terrain and having selected the
appropriate frequency (free from the radio interference and in compliance with
the used antennas), the radio station ensures the data transmitting and
receiving on various distances - the bigger (higher) is the antenna the larger
is the covered area.
The mentioned training camp is located in the territory of
an abandoned military unit in the outskirts of Donetsk
(Ukraine ).
Tuesday, July 21, 2015
4:16 AM PDT
One Ukrainian soldier
killed, one wounded in Donbas in last day
(UNIAN) --- One
Ukrainian soldier was killed and another one was wounded in the Donbas conflict
zone in the last 24 hours, presidential administration spokesman for the
Anti-Terrorist Operation Colonel Andriy Lysenko said at a briefing in
"In the last day, we lost one Ukrainian soldier, and
another one was injured as a result of military clashes," Lysenko said.
As UNIAN reported earlier, the combined
Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions and civilian areas
in eastern Ukraine more than
60 times in the last day, including 30 attacks from 18:00 to 24:00 Kiev time.
Tuesday, July 21, 2015
12:36 AM PDT
OSCE gives no
evidence of Russian militants weaponry withdrawal, - Hug
(Censor.NET) --- Deputy Chief of the
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine Alexander Hug called the militants'
statement on weaponry withdrawal unilateral.
It is reported by
Censor.NET citing Deutche Welle. "We are currently observing an intensive
movement of weaponry. This proves no withdrawal," he said in an interview
to DPA information agency. After militants announced the beginning of
withdrawal of heavy equipment, international observers noted "more
intensive" movement of weapons in the Donbas .
According to Hug, "so far, we have heard only a unilateral declaration" of militants, which the OSCE can't confirm. Its representative notes there is still no agreement on what weapons, where and by what date should be moved.
According to Hug, "so far, we have heard only a unilateral declaration" of militants, which the OSCE can't confirm. Its representative notes there is still no agreement on what weapons, where and by what date should be moved.
Tuesday, July 21, 2015
12:02 AM PDT
Terrorists shelled
ATO forces' positions 60 times over last day. Avdiivka and its coke plant
sprayed from tank and artillery, - HQ
(Censor.NET) --- Russian-terrorist
forces fired at the Ukrainian military positions more than 60 times over the
past 24 hours, July 20.
As reported by
Censor.NET, this is announced by the ATO press center on its Facebook page.
According to the
report, more than 30 attacks occurred from 6 p.m. to midnight. Overall, during
the last 24 hours, terrorists used 152-mm and 122-mm artillery 11 times, 120-mm
mortars - 19 times, tanks - three times.
As the statement
reads, from 6:40 p.m. terrorists again fired from a tank at the Avdiivka coke
plant. At 10:10 p.m. they shelled the Avdiivka residential area from 152-mm and
122-mm artillery systems.
"Using weapons
prohibited by the Minsk
agreements, the militants actively shelled the ATO forces positions near
Novhorodske, Opytne, Krasnohorivka, Nevelske, Avdiivka, Pisky. Harassing fire
was also recorded near Shyrokyne, Maiorsk, Marinka, Bolotiane etc.," the
report reads.
"As of 6 a.m.
today, July 21, our positions near Rozsadky, Maiorsk, Zaitseve, Lozove were
shelled from 152-mm artillery at 4:30 a.m., near Bohdanivka - from a tank. Near
Donetsk
airport, Novomarivka, Troitske, Stanytsia Luhanska, Marinka terrorists used
small arms. Ukrainian defenders rebuffed the enemy using non-prohibited
weapons," the press center added.
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