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Ukrainian forces take school building in Donetsk
2022-01-19
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[RIA Novosti] In the Donbass, on the territory controlled by the Ukrainian army, unidentified persons occupied a school building, said the official representative of the People's Militia of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, Eduard Basurin.

"At the beginning of the month, about 60 militants without insignia occupied the Novognatovskaya secondary school," he specified.

Basurin added that the arrivals also seized the territory of the forestry and placed 12 armored personnel carriers and infantry fighting vehicles there.

As reported in early January in the People's Militia of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic , on December 27, Ukrainian security forces occupied a school in the village of Valuyskoye in the territory they control , deployed headquarters there and began to equip firing positions in classrooms.

Since the summer of 2020, additional ceasefire measures have been in place in Donbass. They include a complete ban on firing, placing weapons in and near populated areas, offensive and reconnaissance and sabotage operations. It is also forbidden to equip positions and use drones near the line of contact.

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