The situation in the responsibility zone of the LPR People’s Militia has a tendency to aggravate.
Over the past 24 hours there were registered three occasions of ceasefire violations on the part of the enemy.
The positions of our units in the vicinity of the localities of KALINOVKA and KHOROSHEYE underwent shelling. When shelling the AFU applied 120mm and 82mm mortars, IFVs, automatic grenade launchers and small arms. Altogether, 30 mortar-shells and grenade launchers were launched onto the territory of the Republic.
Another fact of what Kiev authorities don’t strive for a peaceful dialogue proved yesterday’s events taking place in the responsibility zone of one of our units in the Debaltsevo direction.
Yesterday, an AFU subversive group consisting of four people attempted to secretly cross the contact line in the vicinity of Svetlodarskaya Duga. Using tree-plantings, saboteurs tried to enter our territory in the Debaltsevo direction but were found by the servicemen of one of the observation points of the People’s Militia. As a result of a hit-and-run battle, three members of the sabotage-reconnaissance group were destroyed. The forth was wounded and disappeared.
The group’s task was to commit diversions on the territory of the LPR and this is confirmed by its arms and equipage. Thus, on the battle site there were seized three AK-74M assault rifles equipped with the things that make shots noiseless, trinitrotoluene blocks, portfires and other things for making explosive objects. Besides, saboteurs didn’t have any ID and their uniform didn’t have any identification badge.
There are the serial numbers of automatic weapons: LSH 1596, manufactured in 1964., 6081599 manufactured in 1989., 577391 manufactured in 1975.
Besides, mobile phones were found among the personal belongings of servicemen – one of the phones included photos and videos confirming the fact that servicemen were specially trained.
Ukrainian party has already appealed to us with a request for handing over the bodies of the AFU dead servicemen to them and we will do it certainly but before that we must identify their personalities. I will remind you that on April 23 in the vicinity of Prishib village the Ukrainian sabotage-reconnaissance group blew the OSCE car up as a result, one employee of the Mission perished and two were wounded. The Republican MGP opened criminal cases regarding this fact. We don’t exclude that the members of the destroyed-on May 2 sabotage-reconnaissance group participated in preparing and committing the act of terrorism on April 23. Now their involvement in committing this crime is clarified. Unfortunately, Ukrainian party doesn’t accept cooperation on the issue of getting back the bodies of their soldiers. It’s obvious that they have something to hide.
We can judge the "truth” and "objectivity”
of the statements made by "ATO” headquarters’ representative by the case of
these three saboteurs’ death. Thus, according to Yaroslav Chepurny’s statement
on May 2, irrecoverable losses among Ukrainian servicemen were absent. It is
possible that they were registered as missing or deserters not to spoil
statistics.
Due to recorded active activities of
sabotage and reconnaissance forces, I’m addressing population with an appeal
for being vigilant and calm, paying attention to suspicious things and people
gathering round you and reporting on this to the closest military commandant's
headquarters of the People’s Militia and to the MGB of the LPR.
I would like to warn the enemy about
the lack of
prospects of such attempts. We won’t
allow violation of the peace and threat to our citizens’ security, we will
protect them at whatever the cost.
Trainings on combat practice are always held with the military personnel during which servicemen’s skills in drilling issues of conducting a battle on the offensive, under conditions of the enemy’s passing to the offensive are improved. Preparation for the Victory Parade on May 9 keeps going on.
We fully comply with the Minsk agreements but in case they are disrupted by Ukrainian side, we are ready to act decisively.