Over the past day, the armed forces of Ukraine opened fire seven times on the territory of the Republic, spokesman for the DPR PMD Oleg Nikitin reported at a briefing in Donetsk on May 18.

  • “On the Gorlovka front, militants from the 58th brigade shelled Ozeryanovka and the villages of Gagarin Mine, and Mine 6/7 with 120 and 82mm mortars.
  • On the Donetsk front, the 57th brigade engaged Spartak and Kashtanovoye with 120 and 82mm mortars, rocket launchers, large-caliber machine guns and small arms.
  • On the Mariupol front, the 10th and 128th brigades armed with rocket launchers, large-caliber machine guns and small arms engaged Oktyabr and Petrovskoye. The house at 31 Schorsa Street, Oktyabr, is damaged,” Oleg Nikitin told.

Data on the cases of firing has been sent to representatives of international organizations based in the Republic, as well as to the DPR Prosecutor General’s Office for inclusion in criminal cases against AFU brigade commanders Kaschenko, Mishanchuk, Zubanich and Goncharuk.