https://www.unian.info/war/1943146-...hospital-university-block-houses-damaged.html
Russian-led hybrid troops have mounted an attack on a residential area and infrastructure facilities in the Ukrainian-controlled town of Krasnohorivka in Donetsk region, according to the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) headquarters.
"According to an update, the attack has destroyed the district hospital's building, a block of Luhansk National Agrarian University's Donetsky training division at 2a Nakhimova Street, as well as two houses in a residential district," the ATO HQ reported in the early hours of Friday, May 26. "The attack is still on at 00:05 local time," it said.
As the ATO HQ reported earlier, the Ukrainian members of the Joint Center for Control and Coordination (JCCC) regarding the ceasefire in Donbas reported that Russia's hybrid military forces continued shelling Ukrainian-controlled towns and civil infrastructure facilities along the contact line. Their recent attack on civilians was aimed at a hospital in the town of Krasnohorivka in Donetsk region.
"Late on May 25, separatists again attacked a residential area of the town of Krasnohorivka, having used large-caliber weaponry banned by the Minsk agreements," the ATO HQ wrote on its Facebook on Thursday evening with reference to the JCCC.
"Patients and doctors haven't been injured, but the windows of the building have been broken," it gave details about the Thursday attack. The JCCC's Ukrainian members say they consider such attacks by illegal armed formations of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic to be gross violations of the Minsk peace agreements.
They explicitly fail to fulfill the commitments undertaken within the Minsk Trilateral Contact Group, and the violations are evidence that they deliberately plan and commit terror attacks on civilians in Ukraine.
*************
https://www.unian.info/war/1943251-ukraine-reports-5-wias-in-donbas-in-past-24-hours.html
The situation in the zone of the Anti-Terrorist Operation remains difficult, with the signs of escalation at certain sectors of the contact line, the ATO press center wrote on Facebook.
Over the past day, pro-Russian armed militant groups opened fire 57 times on the ATO forces, with the increased use of heavy artillery, banned under the Minsk Agreements. The militants attacked 29 times the Ukrainian troops in the Primorske direction.
In Donetsk direction, 26 violations by militants of ceasefire agreements were recorded.
The situation remains most tense in the suburbs of Avdiyivka. Last night, the area near Luhanske and the Svitlodarska bulge also saw escalation. Illegal armed formations over the past day attacked only two times in the Luhansk direction.
"As a result of hostilities in the past day, five troops of the Armed Forces have been wounded in action," the report said.
**************
https://www.unian.info/war/1944026-...rs-in-militant-controlled-area-of-donbas.html
The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine has spotted banned 122mm Gvozdika self-propelled howitzers in the occupied territory of Donetsk region.
"The SMM continued to monitor the withdrawal of weapons, in implementation of the Memorandum, the Package of Measures and its Addendum," the SMM said in a report based on information received as of 19:30 local time on May 24, 2017.
"In violation of withdrawal lines, in non-government-controlled areas, the SMM saw two self-propelled howitzers (2S1 Gvozdika, 122mm) 2.5km north-east of Zaichenko (26km north-east of Mariupol) pointed in a south-westerly direction," the report says.
"On May 23, in non-government-controlled areas, the SMM saw an anti-aircraft gun (ZU-23) mounted on a military truck (Ural-type) in the western outskirts of Luhansk city heading east on road M04 and, in the same location on 24 May, five IFVs (BTR-type) heading north; and an armoured personnel carrier (APC) (MT-LB) in Zaichenko (93km south of Donetsk). Aerial imagery revealed on 23 May three ACVs (type unknown) near Sokilnyky (38km north-west of Luhansk)," the mission said.
"In 'LPR'-controlled area south of Stanytsia Luhanska bridge, the SMM continued to observe, the remnants of a 82mm mortar and of a rocket of a multiple launch rocket system (BM-21 Grad, 122mm) on the tarmac road 250m north of the Prince Ihor monument," reads the report.
***
http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/424332.html
Five Ukrainian servicemen have suffered injuries and traumas on the Donbas contact line in the past 24 hours, Ukrainian Defense Ministry spokesman Andriy Lysenko said.
"Fortunately, the Ukrainian army had no combat fatalities during the day, but five servicemen suffered injuries and traumas as a result of the hostilities," Lysenko said at a press briefing in Kyiv on Friday.
Ukrainian positions were attacked 29 times in the Mariupol sector, he said, adding that strongholds near Krasnohorivka came under attack of various types of grenade launchers, a tank, an infantry combat vehicle, an anti-aircraft gun and infantry weapons.
The same populated locality was shelled by 120mm mortars and 152mm artillery in the evening, the ministry spokesman said.
Twenty-six ceasefire breaches were observed in the Donetsk sector, including those with the use of mortars and Grad launchers, he said.
There were two shooting incidents in the Luhansk sector, Lysenko said.
****************
http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/424362.html
The Ukrainian headquarters blocking trade with the areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions outside Kyiv control has announced plans to begin a new stage of activity in two weeks.
"We believe that the enterprises which are controlled by Russian citizens are the points, the pressure on which may make [Russian President Vladimir] Putin and [Ukrainian President Petro] Poroshenko to take a decision to return our captives. The owners of enterprises in Ukraine - are posing a danger to our country's security.... In two weeks, we will begin our action to apply pressure to the sore spots of Russian business," Anatoliy Vynohrodsky, second commander of the Donbas separate special forces battalion of the Ukrainian National Guard, told a press conference in Kyiv on Friday.
He would not say what the blockade's 'second stage' involved.
"To date, our headquarters has given the command to mobilize our supporters... We understand that trade with Russia is a very subtle moment and you can't shut everything off straight away, we are dealing with it partially," Vynohrodsky said.
Today it is possible to stop importing coal from the breakaway areas and Russia, he said. "The decision [to discontinue coal supplies from the breakaway Donbas areas] has not been signed. We will press and, if need be, will bulldoze the coal supplies," Vynohrodsky said.
