09:59 29.08.2016

Militants shell Krasnohorivka from Grad systems, mortars – Ukrainian JCCC side

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Militants shell Krasnohorivka from Grad systems, mortars – Ukrainian JCCC side

Ukrainian representatives in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination (JCCC) said that militants had shelled the residential blocks in the town of Krasnohorivka in Donetsk region.

Militants fired artillery and mortar rounds from the Staromykhailivka populated locality on the residential blocks in the Krasnohorivka populated locality, the press center of the Ukrainian JCCC side reported on Sunday.

"Along with the 82mm mines, 122mm rocket projectiles fired by the Grad-P portable rocket launchers, whose destructive force is quite powerful, have hit the area. As the facts show, specific shells of such weapons are fired more frequently from the side" of militants," the press center of the anti-terrorist operation (ATO) headquarters reported in a statement published on its website on Sunday.

The residential area in Krasnohorivka has again sustained substantial losses, the statement said. For instance, on Belinsky Street the aforementioned rocket projectile caused a fire at a courtyard, a household building, where the hay was stored, burnt down, it said. The blast wave and projectile fragments damaged the roof and exterior walls of the residential building. The similar piece of munitions also hit the courtyard on Ivan Franko Street.

Besides, on Chapayev Street the blasts of the rocket projectiles damaged two houses, the fences around them and the neighboring area, along with this, 82mm shells hit five courtyards on Tchaikovsky Street. The mortar mine blasts damaged a household building, backyards and roadway covering of the street there.

"Luckily, no civilians were hurt in Krasnohorivka," the Ukrainian JCCC side said.

The servicemen of the Ukrainian JCCC side have documented these instances of ceasefire breaches and militants using the types of weaponry banned by the Minsk agreements and have passed the photographical materials to representatives of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Special Monitoring Mission (OSCE SMM) in Ukraine, Kyiv said.

Last Saturday, the Defense Ministry of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) said that the Ukrainian military had fired mortars of various calibers in Krasnohorivka, and the DPR reported 700 ceasefire breaches then.

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