Over the past day, Ukrainian militants five times engaged the areas of populated localities of the Republic, the DPR PMD’s spokesman Dmitry Astrakhan reported on December 23 at a briefing in Donetsk.

  • “On the Gorlovka front, militants from the 59th brigade engaged the village of Dolomitnoye by using antitank grenade launchers and heavy machine guns.
  • On the Donetsk front, militants from the 56th brigade engaged the areas of Spartak and Zhabichevo with 82mm mortars and heavy machine guns.
  • On the Mariupol front, militants of the 10th brigade engaged the village of Kominternovo by using antitank grenade launchers.

Information about the scale of destruction of the civil infrastructure and civilian casualties is being specified,” he said.