DPR reconnaissance teams registered deployment of Ukrainian MRLS “Grad” and “Uragan” in Kurakhovo – Basurin

Donetsk, June 26, the Donetsk News Agency

DPR reconnaissance teams registered deployment of Ukrainian MRLS “Grad” and “Uragan” in the town of Kurakhovo, which is situated in the Maryinka district to the west of Donetsk, said Executive Commander of Corps of the DPR MoD Eduard Basurin.

“Reconnaissance teams of the DPR Army keep on registering facts of deployment of Ukrainian military equipment and personnel, — the Executive Commander of Corps said. — Thus, movement of MRLS “Grad” and “Uragan convoy from Zaporozhye in the direction of Kurakhovo, and from Grodovka in the direction of Ochertino two self-propelled guns were moving, presumably 2С1 “Gvozdika”.

Ukrainian MRLS and self-propelled guns are also detected in the occupied by Kiev territory to the north of Donetsk. “The reconnaissance service registered the arrival of six MRLS “Grad” and ten self-propelled guns to locality Konstantinovka”, — Basurin reported.

He stressed that on the whole according to the intelligence data “Kiev authorities keep on carrying out reinforcement and rotation of the personnel, deployment of combat units, replacement of vehicles with armoured ones, and they also are engaged in improvement of engineering constructions and the system of obstacles”.

According to the Set of Measures for Implementation of the Minsk Agreement, which was signed by the Contact Group on February 12, artillery of the 100-mm and bigger caliber should have been withdrawn to the distance of 50 km from each other, MRLS — to 70 km, RSML “Tornado”, “Uragan”, “Smerch”, as well as “Tochka” missiles — to the distance of 140 km. The sides should have withdrawn their equipment to the equal distances, at that Kiev — from the current disengagement line, and the DPR and LPR — from the line regularized by the Minsk memorandum of September 19. The withdrawal should have been completed in the first half of March.