According to the Council of national security and defence (NSDC) of Ukraine, about 100 militia Donetsk national Republic lost his life in the area of Marinci, said Deputy head of information-analytical center of the NSDC Vladimir Field.
"in this attack involved up to 1 thousand People. The attack was repulsed. The enemy used heavy equipment, tanks and mortars. Ukrainian headquarters informed the OSCE that will involve heavy artillery. This Attack is more like a reconnaissance of the Enemy wished to test how quickly we respond to such danger, "said Field, who is quoted by RIA" Novosti ".



according to him, in the end, the fighting killed one hundred of the militia." so, at the cost of losing about hundreds of lives militants checked the fortress of defense of the Ukrainian army ", - said Field. On Wednesday the official representative of the presidential administration of Ukraine on problems of special operations in the Donbass Andriy Lysenko and the Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk told about the offensive against militia in the area of Mariinka near Donetsk. However, the militia said that the Military were the first to attempt a breakthrough in the area of Marinci. Zam. the force commander of the militia DND Eduard Baturin said that the shelling from the Ukrainian security forces were a cover for transporting tanks. In addition, he did not rule out that the Attack in Marinka may be a red herring in front of a large-scale provocations in Luhansk region.

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