Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
By Vera Kasiyan
[LB] The Joint Forces Operation Headquarters denied reports that Ukrainian troops had seized a temporarily occupied village in Donbas. This is an interpositional space near the village of Granitnoye.
"The Joint Forces Command claims that this information is untrue. This is another attempt by illegal Russian armed groups to discredit and accuse Ukraine of violating the line of demarcation," the press center of the Joint Forces Operation Headquarters said.
Instead, as the headquarters emphasize, it was in this area that the irregular armed formations of the Russian Federation on the territory of ORDLO, violating the comprehensive ceasefire regime, opened fire with weapons prohibited by the Minsk agreements.
"The servicemen of the Allied Forces are monitoring the situation and continue to perform tasks to repel and deter the armed aggression of the Russian Federation. The positions of the Ukrainian military remain unchanged," they added.
As of 5:00 p.m., the press center of the Joint Forces Operation Headquarters reported that Russian mercenaries fired 122omm artillery near Granitnoye three times .
The Donetsk Oblast Prosecutor's Office has launched criminal proceedings under the article "violation of the laws and customs of war" over the shelling of Granitnoye by pro-Russian militants . The occupiers fired mortars at the village. Six residential buildings and a power line were damaged. There are no civilian casualties.
In all, the enemy has violated peace agreements seven times since the beginning of the day. As a result of hostilities, a Ukrainian serviceman was killed and another was wounded.
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[KavkazUzel] A resident of Karachay-Cherkessia in 2012 moved to Syria and joined the militants, investigators suggested. The woman was put on the international wanted list.
According to the investigation, the native of the Prikubansky region flew from Russia to Turkey on October 25, 2012, from where she arrived in Syria.
ISIS declared itself independent in 2014, but Al Nusra fought against the Assad government for Raqqa in 2012-13, so it might have been them.
"Being in the city of Raqqa, sharing the religious-extremist ideology, she entered and took an active part in the activities of the armed formation," the press service of the ICR department for Karachay-Cherkessia said today.
A criminal case against a 34-year-old woman was opened by the Ust-Dzhegutinsky interdistrict investigation department of the department. The case is being investigated in accordance with part 2 of Article 208 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (participation on the territory of a foreign state in an armed formation not provided for by the legislation of this state, for purposes contrary to the interests of the Russian Federation).
"The woman has been put on the international wanted list. The court has chosen a preventive measure against her in the form of detention," says a message posted on the department's website.
Part 2 of Article 208 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation provides for eight to 15 years in prison.
"Caucasian Knot" wrote about other cases of criminal prosecution of residents of Karachay-Cherkessia, accused of helping Syrian militants.
So, on August 27, the Sledkom reported on the start of an investigation into the case of a resident of the village of Kardonikskaya. According to investigators, in June 2015, a woman flew from Russia to Turkey, from where she arrived in Syria, where she helped treat members of a terrorist organization.
In July, a native of the village of Storozhevaya, Zelenchuksky District, was also suspected of participating in the activities of a terrorist organization . According to the investigation, the woman has been in Syria since 2016 and works as a doctor in a hospital where she treats militants.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. By Aleksandr Kots
[KP] On the video, taken by the phone from the screen, there are stills familiar from Karabakh. The drone aims a guided bomb at a howitzer, similar to the D-30, after a few seconds it drowns in the smoke of a powerful explosion. Ukrainian volunteers claim that Kiev was the first to use the Bayraktar attack drone against the DPR army.
Information about an exacerbation in the Donbass in the Telmanovo-Granitnoye area began to appear in the morning. The first artillery fire on the positions of the militia was opened by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In this case, several civilian structures were damaged. Apparently, the Donetsk side opened fire in response to the suppression. At least in social networks, photos of the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, covered with artillery, were published. In the end, it is necessary to respond to such insolent shelling.
Kiev immediately trumpeted about the treacherous attack on the civilian sector. And apparently, he decided to use shock drones bought from Turkey.
Volunteer Oleg Boldyrev was the first to report on the use of the drone:
"Today, Bayraktar worked on the enemy's artillery battery. Minus one gun from a distance of over 11 km.
Journalist Yuri Butusov specified the type of ammunition that was used by the drone:
"For the first time, the Armed Forces of Ukraine sent Bayraktar to the battle area for counter-battery combat and the howitzer was destroyed by the MAM-S bomb. This is the first combat use of "Bayraktar" in the war. The order was given by the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny." Butusov also said, quoted on Butusov's Censor.net Ukrainian language newsite.:
"Today, a battery of Russian D-30 howitzers began another shelling of the positions of the Ukrainian 93rd Mechanized Brigade near Granitnoye. That's in Lugansk
Later this information was confirmed by the Ukrainian General Staff:
“By order of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Lieutenant-General Valeriy Zaluzhny, the Bayraktar reconnaissance and strike unmanned complex was used for the first time in the area of the Joint Forces operation. The drone did not cross the line of collision and destroyed one cannon with a controlled bomb.
And then you can predict by looking back seven years. Remember how it began in Slavyansk. First, they threw single mines, then calmed down, watched what the reaction would be. Are they silent "behind the curb"? Hold in volleys.
Then they pulled up the barrel artillery. Also, one or two shells per test. No reaction? Get a division of howitzers on the back slope of Karachun.
Again, no? Let's try the Grad (BM-21 artillery rocket launcher). One projectile, two projectiles. Didn't "little green men" appear on the horizon? Well then, take it, Slavyansk, in packages by area. Why be ashamed?
Why have they struck with only one missile now? Well, yes, it's expensive. But that’s not the reason. Feel how far they will be allowed to go. And if they allow it, as in Slavyansk, then soon a carousel of Bayraktarov will hang in the sky over Donbass.
There is no doubt that the Turkish friends of Kiev will give Ukraine an unprecedented discount on the purchase of missiles - one should not miss another advertising campaign.
It's good that Bastrykin opened a criminal case. But they can't shoot down drones. A reaction of a completely different caliber is needed here. It is worth noting Ukrainians, and probably the separatists have been using small drones to spot artillery fire. This is the first use of a drone supplied by a foreign government using direct attack munitions for counterbattery work.
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