The official representative of the People’s Militia of the DPR, Colonel Eduard Basurin, said that Ukrainian militants continue to carry out deliberate provocations, exacerbating an already difficult situation.
“Yesterday, in violation of the first paragraph of the Set of Additional Measures for the Observance of the Truce, which expressly prohibits the use of any unmanned aerial vehicles for the purpose of reconnaissance and subsequent strike, from the positions of 56th brigade, in the area of the settlement. Merry, the enemy launched an Evo II UAV equipped with a drop mechanism and an explosive device suspended from it”, Basurin said.
The official representative of the DPR People’s Police noted that the photographs of this unmanned aerial vehicle directly indicate the intentions of the militants to commit another terrorist act against the civilian population of the republic.
Basurin stressed that the drone of the Kiev punishers was detected in a timely manner and forcibly planted, the explosive device suspended from it was successfully defused.
“Thanks to the professionalism of our defenders, the well-coordinated actions of air defense and electronic warfare crews, we managed to avoid casualties among the population. Currently, our specialists are studying video materials recovered from the device’s memory,” he concluded.