Ukraine war updates: daily briefings as of August 3, 2016

Ukraine war updates from the war zone in southeast Ukraine as of August 3, 2016 by ATO HQ operational data and Presidential Administration spokesman on ATO issues briefing: EMPR highlights.

(1) The situation in the war zone in southeast Ukraine intensified again. Russian armed forces and their proxies launched 71 attacks over the last day, in particular: 15 on Luhansk direction, 30 on Donetsk direction and 26 on Mariupol direction;

(2) Luhansk direction: Russian mortars and grenade launchers fire reported in Novozvanivka and Krymske; in the meantime, Novooleksandrivka and Zolote came under Russian grenade fire; Russian occupiers used APCs in Stanytsya Luhanska; Russian sniper fire reported in Novozvanivka; the enemy released more than 100 mortar mines at Krymske and Popasna; to this end, 6 times Russian occupiers used heavy weapons on this direction over the last day;

(3) Donetsk direction: Russian armed forces fulfilled 9-hours-long firing at the residential areas of various settlements nearby the city of Donetsk; in particular, 11 Russian mortars shelling of Avdiivka, Opytne and Zaytseve residential areas recorded by the Ukrainian side, where the enemy released in total 85 mines (8 of them of 120-mm forbidden by the Minsk agreements caliber); 2 residential houses were damaged by Russian fire in the village of Pivnichne (Toretsk District); besides, massive Russian shelling reported in Donetsk airport area and Svitlodarska line; Russian occupiers continue firing at the Krasnogorivka – Avdiivka – Horlivka direction with the use of 120-mm and 82-mm mortars, grenade launchers, high caliber machine guns and small arms; the enemy use APCs fire near Luhansk and Mayorsk; the hottest spot reported in Zaytseve, where Russian forces used heaviest cannon artillery; to summarize, the enemy 24 times opned fire from heavy forbidden weaponry and released 400 mortar mines and 34 artillery shells upon Ukrainian troops position over the 1 day (!), which is definitely a record over the last months;

(4) Mariupol direction: Russian occupiers opened fire with mortars of different calibers, grenade launchers and machine guns upon Ukrainian troops positions; hot spots reported in Karsnogorivka; meantime, the enemy used infantry fighting vehicles in Maryinka, Shyrokine, Talakivka and Vodyane; yo this end, Russian massive sniper fire and tank operations reported in Maryinka, which forced Ukrainian defenders to returned fire 10 times; to this end, the enemy launched 7 attacks from heavy weapons on this direction;

(5) 2 Russian UAVs were spotted over the sky in Donetsk Oblast, the war zone in eastern Ukraine;

(6) Russian forces’s losses in the war zone over the last day are as follows: 1 killed and 3 wounded;

(7)  No lethal casualties among Ukrainian servicemen, but 3 servicemen were wounded in action in the war zone in southeast Ukraine over the last 24 hours.

EMPR

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