Situation in the ATO Zone
Despite all efforts of the Ukrainian side to implement peace initiatives, the terrorists continue to violate the ceasefire agreements and try to outflank Ukrainian military and broaden the territories under control.
Within last 24 hours the illegal armed groups attacked Ukrainian checkpoints and positions in Donetsk and Lugansk regions numerous times by fire.
In the town of Shchastya during mortar shelling the terrorists damaged buildings of the town hospital, military commandant’s office, municipal service administration, technical school #50. One woman was killed, 16 local inhabitants were wounded, 3 of them severely.
The shelling of the Ukrainian Army positions near the airport of Donetsk continues. For the severest shelling of ATO positions, terrorists used “Grad” systems and mortars near Maloorlivka, Orlovo-Ivanivka, Ridkodub (Donetsk region) and Shchastya (Lugansk region).
From time to time terrorists attack with fire a checkpoint of the Ukrainian Army near Talakivka not far from Mariupol, but the shells sometimes hit dwelling houses of the town.
The activity of the joint center working party for control and coordination of the ceasefire issues goes on, consisting of Ukrainian representatives, OSCE monitoring groups and Russian military. The chief of this group is Lieutenant-general Yuri Dumanskiy.
Russian representatives, headed by deputy commander-in-chief of the Russian land forces Lieutenant-general Lentsov Oleksandr Ivanovich, are now in Donetsk. Till 1 p.m. the meeting with the representatives of illegal armed groups was conducted, devoted to the ceasefire regime implementation. The results of this meeting are till now unknown.
In the border area during last 24 hours there were no combat engagements with terrorists as well as shelling of the State Border Service units. Violations of Ukrainian air space were not spotted either.
As a result of terrorists’ shelling within last 24 hours 1 military serviceman was killed, 8 ones were wounded.
In Oleksandriya (Kirovograd region) a memorial headstone on the facade of school #17 was solemnly opened in memory of an officer of the 25th separate Dnipropetrovsk airmobile brigade, Lieutenant Eugene Tankovskiy. The 34-year-old officer was killed on the 5th of August neat the town of Torez, Donetsk region.
On the armor training battlefield in the town of Bashkyrivka, Kharkiv region, the commander of the National Guard of Ukraine inspected the combat skills of tank crews, which demonstrated their skills in practical shooting and interoperability. During last 2 weeks mobilized soldiers and officers had military maneuvers: they studied armor unit tactics, interoperability, structure and design of combat machines, honed their driving and shooting skills. The next training step is their participation in the tactical army exercises, where armor units will act and complete their missions as a part of a greater military unit.
The specialists of distant technical brigades of “Ukroboronprom” have fixed 148 units of combat machines within the last week. Among them were main battle tanks “Bulat” and machines on the platform of T-64, armored infantry and cavalry vehicles AIV-1 and AIV-2, armored engineer vehicles. Also 24 armor carrier vehicles ACV-70,-80 as well as modern ACV-3,-4 were repaired for the National Guard of Ukraine. 13 artillery systems and supporting machines, as well as 29 units of automobiles were renovated after conservation.
On the situation in the settlements in ATO zone
The suspension of social payments in the terrorist-controlled area of Lugansk region causes social tensions among local inhabitants. The sanitary and epidemic situation among children in Lugansk got substantially worse, which is caused by absence of the medicine needed and a lack of medical staff, first of all pediatricians.
As of 26th of September, more than 172.3 thousand inhabitants in the Lugansk region are partly cut off the gas supply, are in critical state and need inspection. 39 settlements are fully cut off the gas supply, 26 ones – partly.
As of 26th of September, pump stations #2 and #4 in Lugansk, Vergun water treatment facilities, Oktyabrsk station of biological treatment were fully reconstructed. Now Lugansk is fully supplied with water according to the schedule, except the districts of Dimitrov, Shevchenko and Promzhylstroi, Zimlyanska Street, town of Shchors and part of Oboronna Street. No drinking water is supplied to the towns of Rovenki, Sverdlovsk and Chervonopartysansk because of the damaged pump station in the settlement of Novogannivka.
The interagency coordination staff began the implementation of the dwelling program for inner migrants in the autumn-winter period. Regional staffs in cooperation with local executive authorities assigned more than 1 thousand residential objects for 18 thousand people.
International community continues to support Ukraine
The President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz sent a protest note to the Russian embassy in Brussels because of the refusal of entry on the territory of the Russian Federation for a member of the European Parliament Rebecca Harms to inspect the judicial process of Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko.
The official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Relations of Germany Sawsan Chebli claimed that the plans of self-proclaimed “DPR” to hold elections in November would undermine the Minsk agreements. She also left open the possibility for the German side to take part at the possible meeting of Ukrainian and Russian presidents on Donbass crisis.
