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14 unknown soldiers buried in Dnipropetrovsk
Another 14 unknown soldiers killed in the Donbas have been buried at Krasnopilske cemetery In Dnipropetrovsk. "In total, 225 unknown defenders of Ukraine have been buried at Krasnopilske cemetery. Today, another 14 soldiers will be laid to rest here. 90 of those buried have been identified. 80 of them have been reburied in...
Russian proxies attack ATO forces 67 times
The combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine 67 times overnight, using banned artillery systems twice, mortars 15 times, multiple rocket launchers once, and rocket-propelled grenade launchers and small arms 65 times, the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) wrote...
ATO headquarters: militants provoke major standoff to request Russian help
Militants are attempting to destroy the Minsk truce, seeking to request "help" from Russia, according to Anatoliy Stelmakh from the Staff of the Anti-Terrorist Operation. The situation in the ATO zone has remained tense on August 14-17, with the highest number of attacks on military positions of government troops by...
Militants shell two villages near Mariupol, leaving two civilians dead, another six wounded
Russian-backed militants engage self-propelled artillery on the residential areas of Sartana and Lebedinske near the strategic government-controlled port city of Mariupol in the late hours of Sunday, killing and injuring several local civilians. Russian proxies have shelled the villages of Lebedinske and Sartana with...
Footage of Sartana damages from militant shelling released on Ukrainian TV
Russian-backed militants engage self-propelled artillery on the residential areas of Sartana and Lebedinske near the strategic government-controlled port city of Mariupol in the late hours of Sunday, killing and injuring several local civilians. Russian proxies have shelled the villages of Lebedinske and Sartana with...
Ukrainian soldiers expect to be attacked in Luhansk Oblast’s Svitlychne (PHOTO)
Ukrainian soldiers are holding their positions but awiating an attack in Svitlychne village, south of the provincial capital of Luhansk in Luhansk Oblast. According to Ukrainian military intelligence forces, thousands of Russian-separatist insurgents with heavy weapons arrived to Sokolniki, northwest of Luhansk and five...
Ukraine’s Heroes: Family of fallen ‘cyborg’ believes in Ukraine’s victory despite their grief
Editor's note: Ukraine's Heroes is a Kyiv Post project devoted to Ukrainian army heroes wounded and fallen in Russia's war against the nation. Periodically, we will tell stories of these wounded warriors, many of whom need money for treatment, surgery and prosthesis. Thousands of people holding candles turned out on...
Donbas sees peak of 152 attacks by Russian proxies in last weeks
The combined Russian-separatist forces intensified their attacks over the last few weeks and fired almost all types of weapons on Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine 152 times on August 12, including 102 times in the area of the militant-controlled city of Donetsk, the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO)...
Tymchuk: Militants redeploy artillery to Starohnativka and Novolaspa
The Russian proxies have redeployed additional artillery units in the area of the villages of Starohnativka and Novolaspa, where military clashes between the terrorists and the Ukrainian armed forces took place on August 10, according to the Information Resistance Group, a pro-Ukrainian group reporting on the conflict in...
Ukraine says it may use artillery in response to militants’ massive attacks
Ukraine has warned the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine that the Ukrainian army may start using artillery systems in response to militants' massive attacks, press secretary of the Ukrainian General Staff Vladyslav Selezniov told Ukrainian online newspaper Ukrainska Pravda. "Since 20:00 Kyiv time last...
Donbas escalates with hot spots near Donetsk, Artemivsk, Mariupol
The number of attacks on Ukrainian troops on Sunday increased almost along the entire line of contact in the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) zone in eastern Ukraine with hot spots being near the militant-held city of Donetsk, the town of Artemivsk, which was retaken by the Ukrainian army in July 2014, and the...
Russian proxies attack Ukrainian troops 127 times overnight
The combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine 127 times overnight, the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) wrote on its Facebook page on Monday. "The last day in the Donbas conflict zone differed from the previous days of the past weeks by the largest number of...