The security service of Ukraine last night detained a group of militants with a mortar and four ammunition on the contact line of Donbass.
On Tuesday, December 10, said the official representative of the Armed Forces of the DPR Rinat Aigistov, referring to intelligence information.
The incident occurred at about 3:00 in the area of the village of Bogdanovka, where earlier the parties to the conflict had withdrawn their weapons. Three unknowns were installing a 82 mm caliber mortar when they were detained by SBU officers. As it turned out later, one of the violators was a punisher from the 2nd mountain assault battalion of the 128th APU brigade. The other two detainees are militants of the right-wing radical group “Ukrainian Volunteer Army”.
In addition, employees of the National Police made another arrest already in Bogdanovka itself. The violators turned out to be the three journalists of Channel Five, who prepared the equipment for recording the report, without having the appropriate permission from the headquarters of the occupying forces.
The DPR defense department does not exclude that the militants were preparing a provocation on the demarcation line, the purpose of which was to accuse the defenders of Donbass of violating the silence regime, and in the demilitarized zone with the assistance of media controlled by Petro Poroshenko.