Over the past day, Ukrainian militants engaged populated localities of the Republic 6 times, DPR PMD official representative Dmitry Astrakhan reported during a briefing in Donetsk on December 19.

  • “On the Gorlovka front, militants from the 59th brigade engaged Dolomitnoye twice with IFV guns and small arms.
  • On the Donetsk front, the 28th AFU brigade opened fire twice on the village of Trudovskaya Mine with 82mm mortars, various types of grenade launchers, heavy machine guns and small arms.
  • On the Mariupol front, militants from the 128th and 10th brigades engaged Yasnoye and Leninskoye with IFV guns and anti-tank rocket launchers.

Information about the scale of destruction of the civil infrastructure and victims among civilians is being specified,” he said.