- June 4, 2015
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Near the town of Marinka south-west of Donetsk under the control of Kiev, on Wednesday passed in heavy fighting with artillery.
By midnight, the situation has stabilized. According to reports, the city remains in the hands of government forces.
Witnesses from the Ukrainian side, as well as representatives of the separatists claim that the clashes began at 3-4 o’clock in the morning.
According to the correspondent Bi-bi-si, located not far from Marinka it were the most intense clashes since the truce in February this year.
Moscow and Kiev are laid on each other responsible for the aggravation of the situation.
Both sides have reported casualties among both the immediate combatants actions, and among civilians.
The most powerful attacks and clashes continued in the region of Marinka and Krasnogorovka near Donetsk, talk at the headquarters of ATO Ukraine.
In this in Kiev and separatist circles claim that the aggression comes from the opposite side and is intended to disrupt the Minsk Agreement.
is within reach
The General Staff of the armed forces of Ukraine confirmed that returned from the rear allotted earlier artillery.
“To stop the enemy offensive and to avoid casualties among Ukrainian military command warned all international partners, has been forced to use artillery,” – said in a statement the General Staff posted on its official page in the “Facebook”.
On Wednesday evening it became known that the upper chamber of the Russian parliament may soon be convened for an extraordinary meeting – reportedly because of the backlog of work.
“The next meeting of our June 24, but I ask you to be within reach. We can have an extraordinary meeting of the tight schedule of the State Duma and considered it the number of laws, “- said at a meeting of the House of Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko.
In the last extraordinary meeting of the Federation Council was held on March 1 last year. Then, Russian President Vladimir Putin asked the Senate to grant him the right to send troops to Ukraine in case it is needed “to protect the Russian-speaking population”.
Subsequently, the President refused this right because it officially does not apply.
The victims among the population
As a result of the fighting and shelling on Wednesday killed three Ukrainian soldiers, adviser of the President of Ukraine Yuri Biryukov.
Also, According to preliminary data, he announced that the head of the Donetsk regional militia Vyacheslav Abroskin, killing two civilians. Five more were injured.
One of the commanders of the so-called DNR Edward Basurin said that as a result of the shelling, which, according to him, in the morning led forces ATO in Donetsk and the surrounding areas, killing about 15 people – both civilians and members of armed groups.
At the same time adviser to the chairman of the SBU Markiyan Lubkivsky citing data from the counter-intelligence reported that in Marinka, killing at least four members of the GRU Russia.
As told earlier by the administration of the Ukrainian president on anti-terrorist operation in the east of Ukraine Andriy Lysenko, the pro-Russian rebels at 3am on Wednesday began an intensive bombardment of positions of ATU forces in the south-western outskirts of Donetsk, near Marinka and Krasnogorovka.
According to the Ukrainian military bombardment was carried out with heavy weapons – tanks, mortars and artillery.
By the end of the fighting died down, but at 20:35 DNI separatist militias resumed shelling of Marinka, the press officer of the Joint Ukrainian Center for Monitoring and Coordination of Ruslan Semeniuk.
According to him, Ukrainian troops caught up with the Russian side and the reported resumption of shelling Marinka. Shortly thereafter, the shelling stopped.
recriminations
Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk also said that Russia has instructed his supporters to launch a military operation.
A spokesman for the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov, said that the Kremlin is closely monitoring the situation and, depending on its development will formulate a position.
US State Department spokesman Marie Harf said that the escalation of hostilities can lead to additional costs for Russia. “Russia is directly responsible for preventing attacks and implementation of the ceasefire agreement,” – she said.
However, the military manual control of the territory in the eastern Donetsk region “Donetsk People’s Republic” say they do not conduct large-scale offensive on Ukrainian military positions.
However, in the press center of the separatist DNI in the “Facebook” it was reported the capture of Marinka.
Tuesday, June 2, Minsk hosted a meeting of working groups the peaceful settlement of the conflict in the Donbass. Parties reported a “constructive” work, but the discussion of the results of this work in the framework of the tripartite contact group under the auspices of the OSCE has been postponed indefinitely.
The representatives of the pro-Russian formations in the east and the Ukrainian military regularly accuse each other of violating the the ceasefire on the line of demarcation in the East of Ukraine.
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