Two Ukrainian soldiers wounded in Donbas in last day : UNIAN news
No Ukrainian soldiers were killed but two were wounded in the Donbas conflict zone over the last 24 hours, presidential administration spokesman for the Anti-Terrorist Operation Colonel Andriy Lysenko said at a briefing in Kyiv on Wednesday, according to an UNIAN correspondent.
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"Over the last day, we haven’t lost any Ukrainian soldiers, but two were injured as a result of military clashes," he said.
As UNIAN reported earlier, on September 14,
no Ukrainian soldiers were killed but two were wounded in the Donbas conflict zone.
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OSCE sees 43 Grads in LPR-held areas behind withdrawal lines : UNIAN news
The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine has reported that militants from the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic ("LPR") in the country's east have massed heavy weapons, including 43 Grad multi-launch rocket systems at their training area.
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"At a Luhansk People's Republic training area near Krasnyi Luch (55km south-west of Luhansk) which is behind withdrawal lines, the SMM observed 43 multi-launch rocket systems (MLRS) (122mm BM-21 Grad), 16 self-propelled howitzers (122mm 2S1 "Gvozdika") and ten towed howitzers (152mm 2A65 Msta-B),"
the OSCE SMM said in its September 16 update based on information received as of September 15, 2015.
In the Luhansk region, the overall situation observed by the SMM remained calm with one ceasefire violation recorded, the OSCE reported. In government-controlled Zolote 4 (60km north-west of Luhansk) the SMM heard two outgoing single shots of small-arms fire 1km north-east of its position.
The SMM observed movements of heavy weapons in areas that are in violation of respective withdrawal lines. At western outskirts of the "Donetsk People's Republic" ("DPR") -controlled Styla (35km south of
Donetsk, 70km north-east of
Mariupol), the SMM observed one main battle tank (MBT) (T-64) stationary in the yard of a private house. In "DPR"-controlled Serdyte (43km east of Donetsk), the SMM observed five MBTs (T-72) escorted by two military painted passenger vehicles (Lada) heading east.
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Huge arms cache discovered in Luhansk region : UNIAN news
16.09.2015 | 13:40
Officers of the Security Service of Ukraine together with the regional police have discovered one of the largest ever revealed consignments of arms in Luhansk region.
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During an inspection of premises of the meat processing plant in the village of Polovynkyne, law enforcers discovered 50 different kinds of weapons.
Security officials seized anti-missile systems, four anti-tank guided missiles, an anti-aircraft machine gun, two machine-automatic grenade launchers, five hand-held antitank grenade launchers, Kalashnikov machine guns, 68 mortar shells, over 400 packages with ranged charge, nearly 500 major propellants, 1,200 fragment ammunition for grenade launchers, four anti-tank mines, 60 grenades of different types, TNT blocks and 22,000 cartridges of various calibers.
Investigative actions are underway to establish all the persons involved in setting up the cache.
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Russian proxies attack ATO forces nine times overnight, early morning silent : UNIAN news
The combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine nine times overnight, the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) wrote on Facebook on Tuesday.
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"The situation was stable in the Donbas conflict zone in the evening of September 15. The pro-Russian gangs continued random shelling of Ukrainian positions. In general, those were chaotic and provocative attacks," the report says.
At about 19:00 Kyiv time, the enemy sniper started firing on a fortified position of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near the village of Krymske in Luhansk region.
In the direction of Artemivsk, at about 21:00 and 23:00 Kyiv time, the occupiers started firing small arms on ATO forces in the village of Rozsadky.
"From midnight to 06:00 on September 16, the
Kremlin-backed mercenaries were not using weapons along the demarcation line," the press center said.
As reported earlier, on August 26, during the meeting of the Tripartite Liaison Group in Minsk, the parties agreed on sustainable ceasefire in the first week of September.
Since that day, the terrorists have significantly reduced the number of provocations.
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DNA examination established names ATU 235 dead soldiers, whose bodies were taken to the Dnipropetrovsk region. Currently, in the Dnipropetrovsk region are still 164 unidentified dead soldiers.98 victims that were previously buried in the cemetery in Odessa Krasnopil'skogo already opiznani. After identifying 88 people decided to rebury their heroes on home soil. Families were ten heroes rest of their brethren.
This Krasnopil'skogo soldiers at the cemetery is a monument in the same style, opened memorial. This will create a walkway memory Defenders.Today the remaining 164 military is not known. For the majority of these bodies have already established the first match DNA codes. In the near future will be held the second - final - study.
To search for the missing in Dnipropetrovsk working "hot line". At (093) 801 84 98 - Working Group Investigation Department of the Interior Ministry of Ukraine in Dnepropetrovsk region, and (056) 744 48 13 - Department of interaction with law enforcement, civil protection and defense of Dnipropetrovsk regional state administration, experts tell you what to do and where to go if your cousin gone missing or have information about his death in the area ATO.
Since the beginning of ATU to the Dnipropetrovsk regional bureau of forensic medical examination in 1129 delivered the bodies of fighters killed in the area ATO. Visually native opiznaly 730 defenders, 235 names have been established through molecular genetic research.