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On Eve of EU Vote to Extend Sanctions War Returns to Ukraine
Resumption of fighting on eve of EU vote on extending sanctions against Russia is a predictable action given the nature of the Ukrainian regime and the multiple crises it faces.
http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/war-returns-ukraine/ri7711
Resumption of fighting on eve of EU vote on extending sanctions against Russia is a predictable action given the nature of the Ukrainian regime and the multiple crises it faces.
http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/war-returns-ukraine/ri7711
Emergent statement of Executive Commander of Corps of the MoD DPR Eduard Basurin
June 4, 2015, Donetsk
On June 3 operational situation in the Donetsk People's Republic sharply deteriorated. Executive Commander of Corps of the MoD DPR Eduard Basurin spoke about it at his briefing yesterday.
"On dawn today Ukrainian Army carried out massive shelling of settlements of the Donetsk People's Republic practically along the entire contact line. Such localities as Donetsk, Shirokino, Gorlovka and Spartak were subjected to the most fierce non-precision fire of Ukrainian artillery. Unfortunately, this resulted in great number of civilian casualties. According to the latest reports only in Donetsk there were about 90 victims of yesterday's shelling. The figure is not final. Search and rescue works in the destroyed buildings are still underway. We blame Kiev for the drastic deterioration of the situation. In the course of the recent weeks we have been registering Kiev's efforts to bring up heavy artillery and armoured vehicles to the contact line. We named certain localities and and the number of dislocated there in violation of the Minsk Agreement Ukrainian equipment and armaments. We warned about Kiev's efforts aimed at formation of large number of covert groups and preparation of a big-scale provocation in order to accuse the DPR in wrecking of the Minsk Agreement. Unfortunately, neither submitting of the information to the OSCE observers, no open appeals to Kiev's tutors in the West did not make any effects. We expected the big-scale provocation o the part of Ukrainian forces in the night from Friday to Saturday on the eve of the forthcoming summit in Germany of the biggest Western countries' leaders. Nevertheless Kiev, as we can see now, did not wait for the orders from its Western tutors and organized massive attacks along the entire contact line in view of tomorrow's Poroshenko's annual speech in the parliament.
I'd like to stress that the Armed Forces of the DPR in the course of the last 24 hours, owing to their selflessness and even at times self-sacrificing attitude, managed to stop the advance of the enemy deep into the Republic. The plan of a "small victory" in Donbass for the decoration of Poroshenko's speech in the Rada went awry.
This victory was to occur in the area of Maryinka. In the first half of the day out reconnaissance registered an unusual liveliness at the enemy's positions there. Then Ukrainian military at first opened fire from their position in the nearby Krasnogorovka, and then - at the Ukrainian Army positions in Maryinka. Allegedly, in response to this shelling Ukrainian artillery dislocated in the part of Maryinka under Kiev control opened massive artillery fire on our position in the outskirts of Donetsk. Soon the artillery of UAF dislocated in Krasnogorovka joined in. As a result the positions of our Armed Forces in the outskirt of Donetsk came under artillery cross-fire.
The fact that the provocation was pre-planned by Kiev does not raise any doubts. Ukrainian shells had hardly dropped on our positions in the outskirts, when Ukrainian media filled with the headlines declaring the alleged wrecking by the DPR Army of the Minsk Agreement and start of our offensive at their positions. Under the canopy of this massive shelling Ukrainian forces moved from Novoselovka to Maryinka and Krasnogorovka altogether two tank units and about 300 of personnel. They are still stationed there. Thus, the covert goal of Kiev's provocation was the abrupt increase of the banned in accordance with the Minsk Agreement Ukrainian heavy artillery and equipment in the outskirt of Donetsk in order to carry out the next provocation on Saturday or to storm Donetsk.
We call upon the Ukrainian side to stop provocations and strictly adhere to the reached in Minsk on February 12 peace agreements. The units of the DPR Army do not plan any offensive activities that are prone to wreck the ceasefire regime and fierce and full-scale war", – Basurin said.