Lugansk separatist rebels denounce shots from Kiev troops deployed on the other side of the so-called “line of contact”
The Ukrainian Army accuses the Russian troops of an artillery attack while the Lugansk separatist rebels denounce shots from the Kiev troops deployed on the other side of the so-called “line of contact”. Meanwhile, the Belarusian president, Alexander Lukashenko, announced that, after the current maneuvers, Russia will leave part of its war material in Belarus and acknowledges that its withdrawn soldiers would take a day to return if necessary.
For the third consecutive day, the Russian Defense Minister reports the withdrawal of the troops he has deployed along the border with Ukraine. However, such information is interspersed with others of a truly distressing nature.
The press department of the “Joint Forces Operations Center” of the Ukrainian Army has just released a note on Facebook stating that “Russian troops have attacked the town of Stanitsa Luganska with heavy artillery”, located next to the “line of contact” or separation of the contending parties and a few kilometers from the border with Russia. The same information states that “the projectiles hit the building of a daycare center and left half the town without electricity.”
For its part, the “popular militia” of the self-proclaimed Lugansk People’s Republic assured today in a statement that “the situation on the contact line has deteriorated significantly (…) In the last few hours there have been three new attacks by the Ukrainian Army against five population centers of Luhansk’. According to the note, the republican authorities have approached the OSCE monitors to take note of the violations of the ceasefire by the Kiev Armed Forces “in order to avoid bloodshed, since Kiev they are trying to provoke an escalation of the conflict.” In the opinion of the Kremlin spokesman, Dmitri Peskov, “the situation in Donbass is getting worse. The Ukrainian forces have deployed an enormous offensive potential there”, some 120,000 soldiers, according to the pro-Russian separatists.
Three days after the end of the joint military exercises in Belarus, which began on the 10th, the Belarusian president, Alexander Lukashenko, suddenly announced today that, according to an agreement reached between Minsk and Moscow, “part of the Russian war material will remain in Belarus after the end of the exercises’.
At the same time, Lukashenko points out that “the military of Belarus and Russia could return to their permanent barracks in a single day, but they will be in the republic for as long as necessary”, which means admitting that 24 hours would also be enough for the withdrawn Russian troops will return to Belarus again.
Both Moscow and Minsk have been assuring in recent days that, once the maneuvers are over, Russian troops will leave the country for their bases in Russia. The Belarusian president said today that the neighboring country’s troops could create a training center in Belarus for handling “Inkander” missiles, a short-range weapon capable of carrying a nuclear charge.
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