Ukrainian militants engaged twenty populated localities of the Republic in the past week, having violated the ceasefire sixty-three times, Deputy Commander of the Operational Command Colonel Eduard Basurin reported at a briefing in Donetsk on December 14.

“The enemy again violated the ceasefire, having fired ninety-four 120 and 82mm mortar shells, one hundred and fifty-three grenades of various types, two hundred and ten IFV rounds on the territory of the Republic. As a result of the attacks on Staromikhaylovka by the AFU, eleven residential buildings are damaged at 3, 8 and 22 Kotovskogo Street, 43, 44, 45 and 46 Shevchenko Street, 8 Kotsyubinskogo Street, 22 Zhukovskogo Street, 11 and 13 Komsomolskaya Street,” Colonel Basurin stated.

The Deputy Commander of the Operational Command emphasized that all the information with photo and video content had been sent to representatives of the international organizations stationed in the Republic and to the Prosecutor General’s Office to initiate criminal proceedings against war criminals Shapovalov, Ivanov, Kaschenko, Marchenko, Kokorev, Goncharuk and Zubanich, brigade commanders who give orders to fire at populated localities of the Republic.