On January 31, the occupiers of Donbas launched 46 shellings. At the same time, mainly heavy weapons were used. As a result of the hostilities, two Ukrainian soldiers were wounded, and two were injured.
In the Donetsk direction, in the Avdiivka area, the occupiers fired about a hundred BM-21 Grad rocket launchers at the positions of the ATO forces. The defenders of Ukraine were also shelled with 152-mm artillery. Tanks repeatedly opened fire. In addition, the occupiers fired 120-mm mortars on Avdiivka, Dosvidcheny and Verkhnyotoretsk and Luhansk – with grenade launchers and small arms.
In the direction of Mariupol, the Russian occupying forces shelled Vodyane and Berdyanske with 122-mm artillery, Novogrigorivka, Krasnogorivka, Pavlopil, Talakivtsi, Novotroitske and the same Vodyane with 120-mm mortars. Militants opened fire from small arms near Shirokina and Novogrigoryevike. An enemy sniper “worked” for Chermalyk.
It was quieter in the Luhansk direction: fire from 82-mm mortars was recorded there in Krymskyi, Troitskyi and Novozvanivka.
The Special Monitoring Mission of the OSCE has reported a sharp increase in hostilities, including heavy artillery and other types of weapons prohibited by the Minsk Agreement,” the US State Department said.
The message mentions that dozens of Ukrainian soldiers and 10 civilians died due to the resumption of hostilities. In addition, 17,000 civilians, including 2,500 children, were left without water, heat or electricity.
The State Service for Emergency Situations of Ukraine (SES) reported that as of the morning of February 1, 2017, fighting was ongoing in Avdiivka.
As reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the terrorists do not observe the regime of silence, which they have repeatedly requested from the Ukrainian side.
Before that, they damaged the railway line between Avdiyivka and Ocheretyne.
In addition, heat supply in the city, where about 22,000 people live, is provided centrally at the expense of the plant’s heat and power plant on natural gas. The air temperature in the apartments is 15 degrees Celsius.
There is no centralized power supply. Objects of the social and household sphere, which do not have their own backup power supply systems, are provided with electricity from 5 generators of the State Emergency Service (there are 12 generators of different power in reserve, 3 powerful mobile power plants are additionally involved).
“As of 07:00 on February 1, the agreement on the regime of silence has not been fulfilled. Shelling continues,” the message reads.
The State Emergency Service noted that the Avdiyivka-Ocheretyne railway track was damaged by shelling, and pyrotechnics are ready to demine the area after the silence.
In the city, heat supply is provided centrally at the expense of a natural gas thermal power plant, the temperature of the coolant in the heating network is 50 degrees Celsius, and the air temperature in the apartments is 15 degrees Celsius.
