Donetsk under the crossfire of the enemy

June 22, Donetsk, DPR
On June 20 military situation in Donbass along the entire front line deteriorated hour after hour. Mortar-gun fire, roaring of self-propelled guns and exchanges of machine-gun fire had been the most fierce along the disengagement line near settlements Krasnogorovka and Staromikhailovka, bordering on Petrovskiy and Kirovskiy districts of Donetsk, where Ukrainian castigators after artillery preparation attempted to break the line of defence of the DPR Army.
In the course of the artillery duel Ukrainian forces suffered losses and were rebuffed. Ukrainian castigators do not hide the intentions to encircle the positions of the People’s Militia and totally exterminate them in this area with the aim of further advance to the city limits.
The battles in the western approaches to the city are very intense: mortar-guns, SPGs, armoured vehicles and machine-guns are being used. According to a series of reports, one of the Ukrainian covert groups managed to filter through the front line and was exterminated by the DPR Army units in the area of the Abakumov mine within the city itself.
Similar tactics – shelling and then the attempts to rebuke the militia at least to a small distance from the initial positions – is used by the enemy in the north-west direction as well: the localities of Zhabunky and Spartak are subjected to crossfire each evening.
Deterioration of the situation in the town of Yasinovataya under DPR control also suits the scenario of carrying out pinpoint strikes and causing maximum destruction of the militia positions and residential areas bordering on the hostilities zone.
War correspondent Steppe