[Korrespondent] Separatist shells hit four houses and damaged two gas pipelines. The fire broke out in one building.
Rescuers of the State Emergency Service on Thursday evening, February 17, checked a number of reports of fires in Stanytsia Luhanska, which arose as a result of shelling. The press service of the department announced the results of the check .
So, as of 23:00 on Magistralnaya Street in one residential building, as a result of shelling, the ceilings of the building were destroyed, glass was broken in eight windows. There were no casualties.
In another house on this street, ceilings and coatings were destroyed, the pediment of the building was partially destroyed, glass was broken in eight windows. Also here, as a result of a projectile hitting the gas pipeline , the roof caught fire on an area of 4 sq.m. There were no casualties.
On Buzkova Street, near a non-residential building, a gas pipeline was interrupted, there is a gas leak (without combustion). Opposite this house in the building, the facade was damaged and the glass in three windows was broken. Also, no one was hurt.
At the same time, information about a fire in another house on Magistralnaya Street and a house on Vatutina Street was not confirmed.
As the commander of the Joint Forces, Lieutenant-General Oleksandr Pavlyuk, said earlier, the shelling of Stanytsia Luhanska by the separatists continues, although the intensity has decreased.
Lugansk separatists say it was Ukrainian artillery firing shorts
Photos of the kindergarten in Stanytsia confirm that it was fired from the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
[LugInfo] The analysis of photographic materials with the results of the shelling of a kindergarten in Stanytsia Luhanska suggests that the fire on the institution was fired from Ukrainian positions. This was stated by the official representative of the People's Militia of the LPR Ivan Filiponenko.
He noted that the headquarters of the so-called joint forces operation "has made a fabricated accusation against the People's Militia of the LPR in allegedly shelling a kindergarten in the village of Stanitsa Luganskaya." Filiponenko added that the photographs presented to the public with the results of the shelling "became indisputable evidence of the involvement of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in this crime."
“Our experts studied the photographic materials in detail and carried out their thorough analysis. The location of the kindergarten building, the angle at which the wall was hit, made it possible to calculate the exact trajectory of the projectile, from which the fire was fired, is located on the territory controlled by the 79th brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine," a representative of the People's Militia said.
He added that "any sane person will determine that there can be no People's Militia units in that direction by definition."
"All this proves that the farce with the destruction of the kindergarten is a provocation by Kiev in order to destabilize the situation in the Donbass," Filiponenko stressed.
He noted that this "news" was picked up by the Ukrainian propaganda media and "used to divert public attention from the regular violations of the Minsk agreements of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the destruction of civilian facilities in the Luhansk Republic."
The head of the People's Militia Department of the LPR, Yan Leshchenko , said that the Ukrainian side publishes staged materials to justify the criminal actions of the Kiev security forces in the zone of the so-called joint forces operation.
Earlier, the Luhansk People's Republic representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire reported that the Armed Forces of Ukraine had violated the "silence mode" 10 times since the beginning of the day. The areas of Zolote-5, the villages of Sokolniki, Veselenkoe, Nizhne Lozovoye, Lozovoye , Raevka and the urban-type settlement of Donetsk were subjected to shelling . The village of Mykolaivka was fired from 122 mm caliber artillery guns by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as a result of which the gas pipeline was damaged , about 500 subscribers were left without power supply .
Later, the JCCC informed that the Kiev security forces violated the "silence regime" 10 times this afternoon in the area of responsibility of the LPR.
Recall that since the fall of 2014, the participants of the Contact Group for the settlement of the conflict in Donbass have announced more than 20 times that they have reached agreements on observing the “silence regime” in the region. The Kiev security forces repeatedly violated the terms of the truce, including by opening fire from large-caliber guns, mortars and tank guns, which were supposed to be withdrawn in accordance with the Minsk agreements.
The Ukrainian authorities launched a military operation against the Donbass in April 2014. The settlement of the conflict is based on the Set of Measures for the Implementation of the Minsk Agreements, signed on February 12, 2015 in the Belarusian capital by the participants of the Contact Group and agreed with the heads of the countries participating in the Normandy Four (Russia, Germany, France and Ukraine). The document, in particular, provides for a ceasefire and the withdrawal of heavy weapons from the line of contact.