Friday, July 11, 2014

At least 30 Ukrainian Servicemen Killed in Donetsk Region
Donetsk People's Army fighting the US-backed regime in Kiev.
July 11, 16:41 UTC+4

One dead, five wounded as Ukrainian armed forces open fire on Luhansk

KIEV, July 11. /ITAR-TASS/. More than 30 servicemen who had participated in the military operation in eastern Ukraine were killed in the village of Zelenopolye in the Donetsk region on Friday, the Ukrainian Interior Minister's adviser Zoryan Shkiryak told a briefing.

"There is information about 30 dead, but I admit there would be more victims," he said.

Meanwhile, various Ukrainian agencies and media outlets report different casualty figures near Zelenopolye. The figures vary from 19 to 50 dead and from 93 to 100 wounded. The Ukrainian Defense Ministry confirms the death of 19 troopers. Ninety-three servicemen were injured, the ministry says.

Poroshenko threatens to kill hundreds per each killed government soldier


July 11, 19:53 UTC+4

In the meantime, the press service of the Defense Ministry has confirmed the death of nineteen and the wounding of ninety-three servicemen

KIEV, July 11. /ITAR-TASS/. Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko on Friday held a conference with top officials of the Armed Forces, security and Interior agencies after the death of several dozen Army servicemen in the Luhansk region, a report at the official presidential website said.

The president said in part it was important to track down and to physically eliminate everyone who was responsible for the deaths of Ukrainian soldiers, security and interior officers.

“The militants (the way that the Kiev authorities refer to the fighters of volunteer self-defense forces in Eastern Ukraine. — ITAR-TASS) will pay tens and even hundreds of their own lives for a life of each our soldier (they kill),” the report quoted Poroshenko as saying.

Different Ukrainian government departments and mass media said earlier that from nineteen to fifty military had died near Zelenopolye in Luhansk region, and from ninety-three to a hundred military had been wounded.

In the meantime, the press service of the Defense Ministry has confirmed the death of nineteen and the wounding of ninety-three servicemen.


Militia claim shooting down another Ukraine air force plane in Donetsk region

July 11, 20:42 UTC+4

The plane reportedly fell down to the north from the Horlivka settlement in the Donetsk region

Ukrainian army use subversive groups to attack railway, clinics and enterprises in Luhansk

DONETSK, July 11. /ITAR-TASS/. The self-defense forces of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic have shot down another Ukraine air force plane over the town of Dzerzhinsk in the Donetsk region, the Novorossiya news agency reported on Friday.

The plane reportedly fell down to the north from the Horlivka settlement in the Donetsk region.
Earlier on Friday, the self-defence forces shot down another Ukrainian army aircraft, presumably an assault plane. The Ukrainian army has not confirmed this information.

Motorway bridge blown up in Donetsk region

Earlier on Friday, a motorway bridge has been blown up in Ukraine’s southeast, the National Security and Defense Council said. The bridge connects two industrial centers — the towns of Dzerzhinsk and Horlivka.

The explosion occurred one kilometer from the Mayorskaya railway station, the National Security and Defense Council's spokesperson Andrei Lysenko said on Friday. The train movement has stopped, he added.

The National Security and Defense Council notes more cases of laying mines at major facilities.

In recent days three bridges have been blown up in the Donetsk region: a motorway bridge on the Rostov-Kharkiv highway; a railway bridge at the settlement of Novobakhmutovka; and a bridge at the settlement of Zakotnoye. Railway lines have been blasted on the Skotovataya-Yasinovatay section of Donetsk railways.

Two bridges across the Seversky Donetsk River and the Tepla River have been blown up in the Luhansk region.


Thousand volunteers join Donetsk people’s army over week

World  July 11, 16:47 UTC+4

The republic was placing its army on a contractual basis, Defense Minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic Igor Strelkov said

Donetsk militia force Ukrainian troops to retreat 10km from Karlivka

KIEV, July 11./ITAR-TASS/. A thousand volunteers have joined the army of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic in the past week, the head of the republic’s mobilization office said on Friday as fighting continued between the pro-Kiev military and local self-defense militia.

“We are not holding a forced mobilization. We are counting on volunteers,” head of the republican Defense Ministry’s mobilization department Pavel Gubarev said.

“Over the past week, over a thousand volunteers have enlisted in our army,” he said.

Defense Minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic Igor Strelkov earlier said that the republic was placing its army on a contractual basis. He said that militia “would get money allowance ranging from 5,000 to 8,000 hryvnias (about $500-800).”

Kiev not to hold talks with Donetsk, Luhansk republics — presidential administration
Since mid-April, Kiev has been conducting a military operation in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions to bring them back under control.

The operation in Ukraine's embattled eastern regions, which involves armored vehicles, heavy artillery and attack aviation, has already resulted in hundreds of deaths, destroyed buildings and forced tens of thousands of people to cross the border from Ukraine to Russia.

After a brief ceasefire announced by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on June 20 and terminated by him on June 30, military attacks of the pro-Kiev forces on the country’s eastern regions resumed.


Donetsk militia force Ukrainian troops to retreat 10km from Karlivka

July 10, 21:08 UTC+4

Earlier, the Ukrainian army, the National Guard and territorial defense battalions had launched an offensive near Karlivka to establish control over the settlement

DONETSK, July 10. /ITAR-TASS/. The militia forces of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) have forced the Ukrainian army to retreat 10km from the Karlivka settlement to Galitsinovka village after continuous fighting on the approaches to Donetsk, the DPR press service told ITAR-TASS on Thursday.

According to the press service, the Ukrainian troops have been trying to seize Karlivka from the militia units for more than a week. The residents of nearby villages could hear the cannonade the whole day on Thursday. The Ukrainian troops used heavy artillery guns against the militias.

Ukraine’s Interior Ministry said earlier on Thursday that the Ukrainian army, the National Guard and territorial defense battalions had launched an offensive near the Karlivka village, 30km away from Donetsk.

According to the ministry, an offensive with the use of armored vehicles was underway in several sections of the front.

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