The head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said that the militia had planned on January 17 full-scale attack, but the Ukrainian army could to prevent it.

"on 17 number (January) was planned mass in different aspects of the occurrence of terrorist forces, and effective and coordinated actions of the military might in fact stopped their progress in all these areas," said Poroshenko at the meeting of the NSDC on Sunday.

the head of the defense Ministry of Ukraine Stepan Poltorak said that the Ukrainian Military beat off the attacks of the militia.

On January 9, the intensity of the fire in the Donbass increased. The thirteenth of January, under the Volnovaha in the Donetsk region was hit by a bus, because it has lost the lives of 13 people. The bus driver said that the fire had controlled the Kiev military North.

Military 18 January intensified shelling of Donetsk, Kiev officially acknowledged that at the airport of the city is a massive special operation. After a few days, 22 January, in Donetsk, was fired on public transport, died 8 people, 17 were injured. In the end the fighting and shelling damaged houses, communications and infrastructure.

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