Militiamen of the breakaway Donetsk national Republic, told us that knocked the Ukrainian su-25 attack aircraft during the battle for the village, Yampil town in the Northern part of Donetsk region, said Last news authorized staff of the militia.
" We have shot down the su-25, also destroyed one tank and several BMD, " said the head of the Department. According to him, militiamen had to retreat in the face of overwhelming odds, but the battle continues.
The battle for Yampol continued throughout the day on June 19. Ukrainian army uses self-propelled howitzers and mortars, tanks, APCS, fighters and helicopters.
From both sides there were dead. Earlier the representative of the headquarters of the anti-terrorist operation Vladyslav Seleznyov has evaluated losses of the Ukrainian law enforcers in four people, militia - 200 fighters. At the headquarters of the militia Last news told that the Seleznyov digit loss militias " to say the least, highly exaggerated ".
Yampil - the settlement of urban type in Krasnolimanskaya area. The population is about 2 thousand people.
Nearly two weeks after the inauguration of the new Ukrainian President Peter Poroshenko, the fighting in Donetsk oblast has spread to the entire region. If Earlier the main " hot spot " was Slavyansk, now " front-line reports " coming from all corners of the self-proclaimed Donetsk national Republic: from Mariupol, Kramatorsk, Gorlivka, and other. As was reported a week ago the Ministry of health of Ukraine, among the dead - more than 200 civil, and among them women and children.
numerous anti-government protests were started in the South-Eastern regions of Ukraine at the end of February 2014. It has been the response of local citizens at the forcible change of power in the country and the subsequent attempt to cancel the Verkhovna Rada of the law, giving the Russian language regional status. The center of confrontation between Pro-Russian-minded people With the government in Kiev has become the Donbass. About that, How is the conflict in the South-East of Ukraine.
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