Over the past 24 hours, the armed forces of Ukraine violated the Complex of Additional Ceasefire Compliance Measures 6 times, official spokesman for the DPR PMD Oleg Nikitin reported at the briefing on January 26.
- At the Gorlovka front, militants from the 35th brigade’s 503rd separate marines battalion fired eight 120mm mortar shells and nine grenades at the village of the Gagarin Mine in Gorlovka, and also used small arms.
- At the Donetsk front, militants of the 56th brigade from positions in Opytnoye fired 5 AGS grenades at Spartak. Also, militants of the 28th AFU brigade’s 1st mechanized battalion from their positions near Maryinka attacked the area of Aleksandrovka with small arms, and 12 BMP-1 rounds were fired at the area of Yelenovka and small arms were used from positions of the mechanized battalion of the 1st separate tank brigade near Taramchuk.
“Our defenders did not respond to the provocations of the enemy, continue monitoring and strictly observing the current ceasefire, are ready for an adequate response to the actions of the enemy. The facts of violations were promptly reported to representatives of the Ukrainian side to the JCCC to exclude the falsification of data on ceasefire violations by Ukrainian militants and take measures against the violators,” Oleg Nikitin stressed.