Section: NSDC
National Security and Defense Council:OSCE confirms heavy weapons under militants’ control in neighborhoods near the front line
Kyiv, August 4, 2015. In its latest report, the OSCE mission confirmed Ukrainian intelligence reports that Russia-backed militants are stationing heavy weapons in residential areas near the front line. In particular, the observers informed us about 140 explosions in the center of Donetsk. In the vicinity of Donetsk, militants systematically...
National Security and Defense Council:Militants fire at residential blocks of Ukrainian towns
Kyiv, August 3, 2015. A large number of incidents were registered in the ATO zone, including militant attacks on the positions of Ukrainian troops with the use of heavy weapons. Seven incidents were registered in the Donetsk and Mariupol sectors when militants shelled residential blocks of Ukrainian towns and villages with artillery and mortars....
National Security and Defense Council:Militants have violated the ceasefire 100 times over the past day
Kyiv, July 31, 2015. A record number of attacks by militants has been reached over the last 24 hours. Yesterday, an unprecedented number of ceasefire violations by militants were recorded, exceeding 100 attacks. Such number of armed provocations by the enemy has not been recorded for more than a month. View map in full size In the Luhansk sector,...
National Security and Defense Council: For the first time in five weeks, militants fire upon Ukrainian troops using Grad missile sysyems
Kyiv, July 28, 2015. For the first time in the past five weeks, ATO forces recorded the use of MRLS Grad launchers by militants. Pro-Russian militants fired upon ATO troops’ positions and residential houses using Grad launchers near the Donetsk bypass. The shots came directly from Donetsk. The militants also use tanks and artillery regularly....
National Security and Defense Council: Ukrainian troops repel three powerful militant attacks near Shchastya
Kyiv, July 27, 2015. Yesterday, Ukrainian troops engaged in three separate engagements with Russia-backed militant groups on the eastern section of the front near the village of Shchastya. The third engagement was the hardest, where Russia-backed militants deployed tanks. All three attacks were repelled and the assailants were pushed back over...
National Security and Defense Council:Ceasefire largely holds in Luhansk and Mariupol sectors, Ukrainian troops incurred no casualties
Kyiv, July 22, 2015. In the Luhansk sector, Russia-backed militants instigated several provocations in the Stanytsia Luhanska, Stary Aidar, Zolote and Troyitske, using small arms and machine guns. No heavy weapons use was registered. In other areas in the Luhansk sector, separatists fully observed the ceasefire. In the Mariupol sector between...
National Security and Defense Council:OSCE does not confirm militants’ withdrawal of heavy arms
Kyiv, July 21, 2015. Observers of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Special Monitoring Mission along with journalists in Ukraine have been monitoring the supposed ‘withdrawal’ of tanks and artillery of less than 100 mm caliber. However, observers reported seeing only three tanks and four armored personnel carriers...
National Security and Defense Council:Russia-backed militants resume heavy artillery shelling in the areas of Svitlodarsk and Horlivka
Kyiv, July 20, 2015. In the Donetsk sector, Russia-backed militants have continued using heavy artillery in the areas of Svitlodarsk and Horlivka, while applying new tactics for conducting artillery fire along the frontline. Militant groups shelled our positions near Lozove with 152-mm cannons – they fired not only from the southern sector, but...
National Security and Defense Council:Three Avdiivka residents die as a result of militant shelling
Kyiv, July 18, 2015. Three residents of Avdiivka have died after the artillery shelling of the city’s residential districts launched by Russia-backed militants. An elderly woman born in 1942, her 10-years-old grandchild with disabilities, as well as a 49-years-old man whose body was found under the remnants of the ruined building, perished as a...
National Security and Defense Council:At least one civilian was killed as a result of Russian militant attack at Kodema village near Donetsk
Kyiv, July 16, 2015. Ceasefire was generally holding in the Luhansk sector. Ukrainian troops have registered only two brief armed provocations of Russia-backed fighters near Krymske and Novotoshkivske. Ukrainian Armed Forces did not incur any lethal casualties over the last day. View map in full size In the Donetsk sector, militants started...
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