Donetsk Defense: Yearly
Situation Report, 30.12.2016
Friday, December 30, 2016 - 16:39
Good day! Over the past year the DPR People’s
Militia has considerably improved its battle training level of its units. There
was held the tank biathlon, were forced water barriers and was carried out
sea-launched assault. It is only some examples of improving skills and level
training of all the categories of the DPR army.
The situation remained tense on the contact line in
the Donetsk People’s Republic. The SMM OSCE representatives daily registered
absence of heavy weapons of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at special storage
sites and it gives evidences of what these weapons were actively used by the
Ukrainian command against Donbass civilians.
During the period from January till December, 2016
the number of violations of the ceasefire regime amounted to 143630 times,
including with heavy arms – 78223 times. The total weight of ammunitions
launched on the Republic’s territory amounted to two thousand tons.
There were destroyed 820 house-buildings and
municipal facilities of the Republic. Vital support facilities and repair
brigades, that came to repair damages, were shelled with artillery and mortars.
There were registered facts when repair-workers were wounded. Target showing
and fire adjustment of artillery and mortar detachment were carried out with
the help of unmanned drones, including impact-detonated ones delivered by
terrorism supporters, by so-called volunteers.
The enemy’s forces and facilities, that are
concentrated in the conflict zone as on December, 2016, amounted to 32 438
soldiers, 213 tanks, 351 units of artillery weapons of 152mm and 122mm caliber,
198 units of mortars of 82mm and 120mm caliber, 84 units of MRLS and to
1154 armored combat vehicles.
The military and political leadership of Ukraine
did not leave attempts to destabilize the situation in Donbass, despite the
commitments taken on complying with the ceasefire regime and even after mutual
agreements on ceasing fire, the Ukrainian side kept increasing the number of
shellings of the Republic’s territory.
Over the past year we registered over 100
provocations carried out by the Ukrainian military along the contact line
associated with attempts to break through our positions. The highest number of
such kind of provocations were registered in the 4th quarter of the
year, after the situation when the Ministry of Internal Affairs Minister Avakov
and Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council Secretary Turchinov gave
the order to the National Guard units to solve the conflict by taking Donbass
by force.
And despite the fact that the Ukrainian military
were rendered assistance in proving the lethal arms and other material things
by foreign countries, all the attempts to seize our positions were ineffective
and led to the big amount of losses among the military personnel and military
hardware of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The extreme case of such an attempt
took place on December, 28 in vicinity of Krutaya Balka where three AFU
servicemen died and four were wounded because of unthinking and criminal
actions of the Ukrainian command.
According to the official data of Ukraine’s Defense
Ministry, the AFU losses amounted to 214 dead servicemen, and to 1324 wounded
in 2016. However, knowing inclination of the Ukrainian military leadership to
falsify and conceal data on losses from the community, we can only presuppose
the real numbers of the killed and wounded. According to the information of the
Ukrainian volunteer organizations and hospital staff of the military hospitals
both in the “ATO” zone and in the rear area, the number of the dead amounted to
600 and the wounded to over two thousand.
The outgoing year was characterized by a new chosen
so-called tactics of waging the military actions on the part of the Ukrainian
military as in by seizing the localities, being located in the grey zone and
this is the rude violation of the Minsk agreements on disengaging sides. By
such actions a few goals are pursued. Firstly, by seizing the locality by the
Ukrainian side there is announced the so-called another Victory over the enemy
without reference to what that the DPR Armed Forces units were absent there. By
this the Ukrainian community thinks that the AFU have the alleged successes of
the AFU in the “ATO” zone.
Secondly, the distance between our positions and
the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine becomes smaller what allows the
Ukrainian side to carry out more actively the armed provocations in relation to
the DPR Armed Forces.
However, how hard the Ukrainian military command
tried to improve the image of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, they failed to do
it. The professional army was replaced by the mercenary army of Poroshenko. The
people mobilized, even receiving military actions’ experience, are the worst
soldiers ever than the career officers. Besides, a lot of criminals, alcoholics
and the needy took arms they only hinder to serve those who still can. The bet
on the volunteer battalions led to what these “volunteer soldiers” went out of
control from time to time and became additional headache both of a command and
of civilians.
We are noting the increased number of grave crimes
on the part of the Ukrainian military in relation to civilians. Robberies and
even murders, as in case that took place on the checkpoint “Maiorsk” on
December, 14 were a common situation on the territory controlled by Ukraine
that does not give a prestige and support to the AFU among civilians.
From the beginning of 2016 in the Donetsk People’s
Republic at the hand of the Ukrainian punishers there died 314 people, three
children were among them. 406 people were differently wounded, 16 children, 323
men and 83 women were among them.
Thus, the military and political situation in 2016
was characterized as difficult and tense. The Ukrainian side still did not
leave attempts to escalate the situation in Donbass and solve the conflict by
force methods that were roughly suppressed by the People’s Militia.
Next year the system work on preparing servicemen
will be continued that is absolutely necessary because the Ukrainian side is
not ready for implementing the truce. Such a situation still continues, the DPR
People’s Militia will increase its battle skills and guard people’s calm.
Vice-Commander of the DPR
People's Militia Eduard Basurin, official translation by DONi News Agency
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