The enemy violated the ceasefire fourteen times over the past day, spokesman for the DPR PMD Dmitry Astrakhan reported on March 16.
On the Gorlovka front, militants of the 58th brigade armed with 122mm artillery, 120mm mortars, various rocket launchers and large-caliber machine guns engaged Zaytsevo, Golmovsky and Gorlovka. The militants were using an unmanned aerial vehicle for fire adjustment. It was timely detected by the Terrikon M2N EW system. The control channel was intercepted thanks to the skillful actions of its operators, the drone was landed successfully.
On the Donetsk front, the 92nd, 28th, 57th brigades armed with 120mm and 82mm mortars, large-caliber machine guns and small arms engaged Zhabichevo and the Donetsk airport’s environs.
On the Mariupol direction, the 128th and 10th brigades armed with 122mm artillery, 120mm and 82mm mortars, antitank missile system, IFV guns, various rocket launchers and large-caliber machine guns engaged Dzerzhinskoye, Leninskoye, Kominternovo, Sosnovskoye and Bezymennoye, having damaged an electrical substation. There are still outages in several villages of Novoazovsky District.
In addition, JCCC monitors spotted a firing with large-caliber machine guns at the territory of the Republic. It was carried out by militants of the 128th brigade in the Petrovskoye disengagement area No. 3.
As reported earlier, militants of the 10th separate mountain assault brigade using a Stugna-P anti-tank missile system fired at the vehicle that delivering water to civilians in Sakhanka in accordance with the schedule. One soldier was killed, another was injured and a civilian suffered concussion.