Ukrainian security forces are regrouping forces in the Donbass, Yakov Osadchy, the official representative of the People’s Militia of the self-proclaimed Lugansk People’s Republic, said at the briefing held on Friday.
The new ceasefire in the Donbass entered into force on July 21. Earlier, the LPR stated that the Ukrainian security forces violated the ceasefire in the region six times during the week.
“The enemy continues to use the terms of ceasefire in order to build up and regroup forces and means, as well as to concentrate weapons in the zone of punitive operations”, – Osadchy said.
According to him, for the deployment of military equipment, Ukrainian security officials use civilian infrastructure facilities of the settlements under their control. According to LPR intelligence, during the week, the security forces have deployed tanks on the territory of the housing estate in Dmitrovka, towed D-30 howitzers and the Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer on the outskirts of Grechishkino, armored vehicles in the residential districts of Peredelsky and Voitovo, at the force withdrawal site near Zolotoy and in the Svetlodarsk area and Mironovsky.
“The facts of the deployment of military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in settlements are confirmed by observers of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission”, – Osadchy said. The representative of the LPR People’s Police added that the Ukrainian security forces impeded the work of the OSCE drones in the Donbass.
He also said that in a week two UAVs of Ukrainian security forces were shot down at the contact line – in the region of Nizhny Lozovoy, controlled by Kiev, and Obozny, controlled by the LPR. According to Osadchy, the photo and video materials taken from the UAV, shot down in the Nizhny Lozovoy area, were transferred to the LNR Prosecutor General’s Office and joined in a criminal case against the commander of the 59th brigade of Ukrainian security forces.