The Ukrainian side is not going to stop the process of destabilizing the situation at the contact line, thus provoking retaliation from People’s Militia units.

Tonight at 1:00, militants from the 57th brigade shelled Zhabichevo with 120mm mortars on the orders of war criminal Mishanchuk, having fired over 10 shells at the village. The shelling resulted in damage to a power line. Stepnaya Street and Sofiyskaya Street are cut off power. Over 310 houses have been left without electricity. Emergency services are working to restore the electricity supply.

Information on victims among civilians and damage to the civil infrastructure caused by the enemy fire is being specified.

Materials on the case of shelling will be sent to representatives of international organizations stationed in the Republic, as well as to the DPR Prosecutor General’s Office for attaching to criminal cases against AFU brigade commander Mishanchuk.

We call on international monitors to interfere in the criminal actions of the Kiev militants in order to stop further aggression of Ukraine against the civilian population of Donbass.