Donbas

The so-called “people’s republics” of occupied rayons of Donetska and Luhanska Oblasts (ORDO and ORLO), which are backed by the Russian government, are planning large scale provocations throughout entire line of contact in the ATO zone

Ukrzaliznytsia reported that its train was shelled by militants on August 8 at Skotuvata station in Donetska Oblast.

A statement purportedly from separatist leader of the so-called ‘Luhansk People’s Republic’ (LNR) Igor Plotnitsky claiming he is back to work and blaming his assassination attempt on ‘the enemies of Donbas,’ has been published.

A magnitude 4.6 earthquake affected the south of Donetsk Oblast on the morning of August 7, the European Mediterranean Seismological Center (EMSC) is cited by Interfax-Ukraine.

The Russian military command in the occupied Donbas came up with the idea to sign service ‘contracts’ with the militants.

A military equipment convoy of the Russian Armed Forces – including tanks, armored combat vehicles, artillery cannons and trucks – is moving through the uncontrolled Russia-Ukraine border.

The Ukrainian side is not involved in the assassination attempt against Igor Plotnitsky.

Ukraine has accused the so-called ‘Donetsk People’s Republic’ of creating camps for training children to handle weapons and gather intelligence data.

Ukraine can’t fully eschew coal from the occupied territories in the short run, Energy Minister Ihor Nasalyk said at a press conference on Thursday, August 4.

The Ukrainian side is constantly raising the issue of violation of the ceasefire and calls on Russia to adhere to the Minsk Agreements during the meetings of the Trilateral contact group, the press secretary of the former president Leonid Kuchma Darka Olifer says.

Members of pro-Kremlin radical movements NLM and SERB attacked the participants of an anti-war meeting against Putin’s policy towards Ukraine.

On Sunday Russian invaders attacked Ukrainian forces in Donbas for 58 times. In Mariupol direction 35 artillery attacks occurred. In Novohryhorivka the enemy attacked with 122-mm self-propelled guns, in Talakivka, Vodyane and Starohnativka the enemy attacked with 120 and 82-mm mortars. In Avdiivka Ukrainian fighters engaged enemy saboteur group, the enemy retreated.

Ukrainian citizens captured by militants in Donbas have been transferred to a pre-trial detention center. They are threatened with 30-year imprisonment.

The citizens of Toretsk (former Dzerzhynsk) in Donetsk oblast asked the Head of National Police in Donetsk oblast Vyacheslav Abroskin to look into the activities of a group of people including the mayor of Toretsk who, in their opinion, were involved in the occupation of the city by militants in 2014.

Narodnyi Front MP Anton Herashchenko criticized Nadiya Savchenko for saying that Ukraine "should apologize for Donbas"

The deputy commander of 53rd brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has been detained for the sale of ammunition.

Local citizens in Druzhkivka, Donetsk oblast, protested against the lack of domestic water supply on Thursday, July 21, the regional coordinator of ‘Strong Communities of Donetsk Oblast’ movement Pavlo Ostrovskyi informed Ukrayinska Pravda.

Representatives of the unrecognized “people’s republic” in Donetsk oblast turned down a Ukrainian offer of a prisoner exchange.

There are currently 702 Russian tanks in the temporarily occupied territories, Yevhen Marchuk, who represents Ukraine in the Minsk negotiations, said on 5 Kanal on July 18.

Top officers of the Russian Army and the Military Commissar of Perm awarded medals to militants who killed Ukrainians in Donbas

The Kramatorsk unit of the Ukrainian Border Guards arrested a DNR militant who has Russian citizenship at Marinka checkpoint on July 11, the press service of the State Border Service reports.

President Poroshenko’s Envoy on Peace Plan for the Occupied Donbas Iryna Herashchenko stresses that the militants are blocking release of the Ukrainian citizens held hostages by them and require amnesty of the gross criminals.

June 5 is the second anniversary of liberation of Slovyansk, Kramatorsk and other Northern cities and towns of Donetska Oblast from separatist militants

In occupied Horlivka, a group of militants together with the head of the company that manages electricity systems created by the authorities of the ‘Donetsk People’s Republic’, seized a building that belongs to Ukrainian state-owned energy company Ukrenergo.

Freight rail transportation through the contact line in Donbas has been resumed since June 25, 2016.

Ukraine will consider introducing decentralization-related amendments to its Constitution only after peace is established in Donbas.

Ukrainian soldiers captured eight militants near Shyrokyne village around Mariupol.

On June 24, the so-called ‘Donetsk People’s Republic’ (DNR) adopted a law on nationalization of all Ukrainian property on its territory.

The TV tower foundation is being restored on Karachun Mountain in Donetsk oblast, Novosti Donbassa reports.

Restoring the infrastructure in parts of Donbas that was damaged during the war will cost about $15 billion.