According to information from DPR representatives to the JCCC, the armed formations of Ukraine opened fire 13 times on populated localities of the Republic over the past day, spokesman for the DPR PMD Oleg Nikitin reported at the briefing on February 29.
- “On the Gorlovka front, fighters of the 58th brigade armed with 82mm mortars and small arms engaged the village of Gagarin Mine.
- On the Donetsk front, forces of the 92nd, 57th and 28th brigades armed with 82mm mortars, IFV guns, rocket launchers of various types and small arms attacked Zhabichevo, Yelenovka, Yasinovataya, Spartak, the village of Trudovskaya Mine and Kuibyshevsky District of Donetsk.
- On the Mariupol front, fighters of the 10th brigade were firing at Leninskoye and Sakhanka with 120mm mortars, rocket launchers, heavy machine guns and small arms.
The attack on Yelenovka resulted in the wounding of a civilian born in 1960, he was returning home from Ukraine through the Novotroitskoye-Yelenovka checkpoint. Also, a residential building is damaged.
Since morning, the enemy engaged Staromikhaylovka and Leninskoye, having fired 33 mortar shells of 82mm caliber, two houses are damaged.
Additional information on the scale of destruction of the civil infrastructure and civilian casualties is being specified.
Materials on the cases of firing at populated localities have been sent to representatives of international organizations stationed in the Republic, as well as to the DPR Prosecutor General’s Office to attach them to criminal cases against AFU brigade commanders Kokorev, Mishanchuk, Marchenko, Kaschenko and Zubanich,” Oleg Nikitin reported.