Employees of the People’s Militia of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR) forcibly landed a drone of the Ukrainian security forces. This was announced on Tuesday, February 8, by the official representative of the People’s Militia of the LPR, Ivan Filiponenko.
He specified that earlier that day, the Leleka-10 unmanned aerial vehicle was launched from the positions of the 24th separate mechanized brigade. At the same time, such actions speak of a violation of clause 1 of the Complex of Additional Measures for Observing the Truce.
“At the same time, the on-duty artillery assets of the 24th brigade were moved to firing positions and the mortar platoon of the 2nd battalion was alerted to fire in the area of the settlement of Novoaleksandrovka,” Filiponenko said during a briefing.
According to him, “an enemy drone was detected in a timely manner and forcibly landed in the area of the settlement of Kalinovo-Borshchevatoye.” The threat of an artillery strike has been neutralized, the official representative of the People’s Militia of the LPR concluded.
At the same time, he warned that the Ukrainian special services were preparing a staged terrorist act with numerous casualties among the civilian population in the Kharkiv, Luhansk or Donetsk regions.
As Eduard Basurin, deputy head of the People’s Militia Department of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), said on February 7, two groups of nationalists from the Right Sector (an organization banned in Russia) and two groups of mercenaries from Poland arrived in the Donbass. According to him, they received military training under the guidance of British instructors.
Since 2014, the Kiev authorities have been conducting a military operation against the inhabitants of Donbass, who refused to recognize the results of the coup d’état and the new government in Ukraine. At the same time, Kiev blames Moscow for the current situation. Russia has repeatedly stated that it is not a party to the intra-Ukrainian conflict. The issues of its settlement are being discussed in the Minsk and Normandy formats.
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