Ukraine war updates: daily briefings as of June 12, 2016

Ukraine war updates from the war zone in southeast Ukraine as of June 12, 2016 by ATO HQ operational data and Presidential Administration spokesman on ATO issues briefing: EMPR highlights.

(1) Number of Russian armed forces attacks in southeast Ukrainesed over the last day, the enemy opened fire in total 49 times upon Ukrainian troops positions, in particular: 6 times on Luhansk direction, 19 times on Donetsk direction and  24 times on Mariupol direction;

(2) Luhansk direction: Russian armed forces concentrated their shelling around the village of Novooleksandryvka with small arms, grenade launchers and sniper fire; one more Russian attack reported in Novozvanivka;

(3) Donetsk direction: Russian forces actively used mortars and cannon artillery, violating Minsk agreements;  in total, the enemy released 576 (!) mortar mines and 226 (!) artillery shells upon Ukrainian troops positions; the hottest spots remain in Avdiivka industrial area, Horlivka and the village of Luhanske; besides of heavy weaponry, Russian armed forces opened fire from APCs, anti-aircraft guns, grenade launchers, large caliber machine guns and small arms; as a result of Russian shelling at Avdiivka a child was wounded;

(4) Mariupol direction: combats continue near Maryinka and Krasnogorivka, where Russian armed forces used forbidden 82-mm and 120-mm mortar launchers as well as grenade launchers, machine guns and small arms; in addition, the enemy opened fire from Dokuchaevsk upon Ukrainian armed forces positions in Berezove and Novotroyitske; in total, Russian forces released 82 mortar mines upon Ukrainian troops positions; Russian forces also shelled from large caliber machine guns, grenade launchers and small arms upon Ukrainian positions in Taramchuk and Vodyane; Russian APCs’s fire reported at the village of Granitne;

(5) Russian forces’ losses in the war zone for the last day are as follows: 5 killed and 12 wounded (in the area of Maryinka and Horlivka);

(6) Russia supplies its armed forces and proxies in southeast Ukraine with arms, in particular: 70 military trucks with ammunition crosses the border (Izvarybe) into Ukraine toward the town of Krasnodon;

(7) No killed in action, but 12 Ukrainian servicemen were wounded in action in southeast Ukraine over the last 24 hours – officials from the ATO press center report;

ATTENTION! Firefights between Russian and Ukrainian forces in Butovka mine after midnight resulted up to 6 deaths among Ukrainian soldiers of the Right sector (4 killed) and Aidar (2 killed) battalions and up to 20 Ukrainian servicemen (Right sector, Aidar, Kyiv-1, National guards etc) were wounded, many sources report; unfortunately, official Ministry of Defence representatives as well as ATO spokesmen deny this information; wait for details, in upcoming briefings on June 13, 2016

EMPR

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