Over the past day, Ukrainian militants engaged the areas of populated localities of the Republic nine times, the DPR PMD’s spokesman Rinat Aygistov reported at a daily briefing on December 24.

  • “On the Gorlovka front, the 59th brigade engaged Dolomitnoye and the village of Mine 6/7 by using heavy machine guns and small arms.
  • On the Donetsk front, militants from the 92nd, 56th and 28th brigades engaged Yasinovataya, Spartak and Aleksandrovka with anti-tank grenade launchers, heavy machine guns and small arms.
  • On the Mariupol front, the forces of the 10th and 128th brigades using anti-tank grenade launchers, heavy machine guns and small arms engaged Kominternovo and Novolaspa.

Information on the scale of destruction of the civil infrastructure and the victims among civilians is being specified,” Rinat Aygistov reported.