Over the past day, Ukrainian militants engaged the areas of populated localities of the Republic nine times. In total, the enemy fired 17 items of different types of ammunition, official representative of the DPR People’s Militia Directorate Dmitry Astrakhan reported at a briefing in Donetsk on December 12.

  • “On the Gorlovka front, militants from the 59th brigade engaged the areas of Golmovsky and Zaytsevo (south) by using heavy machine guns and small arms.
  • On the Donetsk front, Ivanov’s militants from the 56th AFU brigade engaged the environs of Spartak and the Donetsk airport by using 82mm mortars and rocket-propelled grenade launchers, in addition, war criminals from the 92nd and 28th AFU brigades attacked the areas of Yasinovataya, Mineralnoye, Staromikhaylovka and the village of Trudovskaya Mine by using grenade launchers, heavy machine guns and small arms.
  • On the Mariupol front, militants from the 10th brigade engaged Kominternovo by using heavy machine guns and small arms,” Dmitry Astrakhan reported.

The DPR PMD official representative noted that information on the scale of destruction of the civil infrastructure and victims among the civilian population was being specified.