Militants shell Novotoshkivske with Grads at night| Ukrinform
KYIV, March 28 /Ukrinform/. Militants have shelled the settlement of Novotoshkivske (Luhansk region) with BM-21 Grad multiple rocket launchers at night.
It is reported by the press center for the Anti-Terrorist Operation in eastern Ukraine.
According to the staff, attacks were carried out from 21:30 to 21:40 from the direction of Stakhaniv.
"The militants fired 40 rockets at the ATO forces checkpoint, and another 20 shells hit the residential sector of the village. Militants' shelling our positions and civilians, using weapons that should have been withdrawn from the line of contact, again emphasizes that the enemy ignores all the agreements," reads the statement.
The press center noted that militants are deliberately trying to draw our troops into armed confrontation, which is primarily aimed at violating the integrity of the Ukrainian state.
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400 fighters with grenade launchers, anti-tank systems deployed in Donetsk| Ukrinform
KYIV, March 28 /Ukrinform/.The enemy has deployed about 400 militants armed with grenade launchers, heavy machine guns and anti-tank systems in Donetsk, in order to support armed gangs "Oplot", "Vostok" and "Sparta".
Head of the Information Resistance group Dmytro Tymchuk wrote this on his Facebook page on Saturday.
"The enemy deployed by road a total of 400 people with weapons (including grenade launchers, heavy machine guns and anti-tank systems) in Donetsk (Petrovskiy and Kuibyshevskiy districts of the city), in order to replenish 'Oplot', 'Vostok' and 'Sparta' armed gangs," he wrote.
Tymchuk explained that 75% of this replenishment are residents of Crimea and residents of Donbas, earlier "evacuated" to Russia. They have been trained in the training centers located in the Rostov-on-Don region (Russia) and in Perevalne (Crimea).
Russian mercenaries form about 25% of the military personnel of the formation. The redeployment was carried out secretly.
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New explosion in Odesa (Photo) : UNIAN news
Unidentified people exploded a bomb at the entrance of a single-storey building with a civil volunteers' center in Odesa very late on Saturday.
The building, which previously housed the Oriental Yard restaurant, is located at the intersection of Olhiyivska and Mechnykov Streets.
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SBU says it detains three separatist informants
The Security Service of Ukraine said on March 29 that it detained three local residents in Donetsk Oblast who informed insurgents of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic about location and number of Ukrainian troops in the region. They're all facing charges for “creation of a terrorist group or terrorist organization,” the SBU said in a statement.
The men were detained in the towns of Hirnyk, Halitsyvka and Orlivka in Donetsk region in the past 24 hours, the SBU
said.
It also released a video recording of confessions by the three men who talked about their activities. One of them, born in 1984, said he was recruited in June 2014 by “one of the heads of intelligence of the DPR because I have special subversive and sniper training.” He said he was creating and training subversive groups before sending them on assignments to the territory of Ukraine controlled by the central government to conduct special operations.
Another man, born in 1974, said he was also recruited in June, and was passing intelligence on the movement of Ukrainian troops stationed around the town of Hirnyak by phone.
The third man, born in 1952, was recruited in September. His job was also to inform the insurgents about dislocation of the Ukrainian troops in Yasynuvata district of Dnipropetrovsk region.
The three men may be facing between eight and 15 years in jail, according to Ukraine's criminal code.
They are civilians, not militia.
