There has been an increase in social tension, characterized by the escalating conflict between civilians and militants of armed formations, official representative of the DPR PMD Dmitry Astrakhan reported at the briefing in Donetsk on February 6.

As a result of one of such conflicts, militants of the 1st battalion of the 28th brigade came near opening fire on an initiative group of Krasnogorovka women and pensioners who demanded that two infantry fighting vehicles be redeployed from the village, as those were used by militants right in the eyes of civilians to carry out provocative shelling of the Republic.

Prohibited weapons and military equipment are deployed in residential neighbourhoods and in the territory of private households in Krasnogorovka, Bogdanovka, Berezovoye, Novognatovka and Granitnoye.