Ukrainian Military told about the 29 attacks for Tuesday their positions in the area of special operations and summed up the aggravation of the situation in the Donbass.

"The situation in the area of the ATO for 7 July escalated. As of 18. 00 in General, documented 29 of attacks of positions of forces of anti-terrorist operation ", - is informed in the report of the press center special operations V.

Military claim that the militia fired their position from the 152-mm artillery and 120 mm mortars.

according to the press centre, with the start of the day the militia were attacks on the positions of security forces near the settlements of the Novgorod and Pavlopol. 12. 40 attack of positions of the AFU in the area of Granite was fired from artillery, and after 82-millimeter mortars.

As reported by the Military, with the beginning of negotiations of the contact group in Minsk militia began shelling of positions of forces of special operations of the 120-millimeter mortars. They say that shots were fired at positions near the settlements of Novgorod, Luhansk, Experienced, Water.

Also, according to a written statement of the press center, the small arms fire from the rebels was conducted on the positions of security forces in the direction of settlements Marinka, Sand, gold, Mayors, Village Lugansk and Lozovo.

As has told the chief of staff to the leader of the breakaway Donetsk national Republic Maxim Leshchenko, DNR noticed a trend: after negotiations in Minsk the number of shelling the territory of the Republic increased.

The Ukrainian authorities began in April last year in the Donbass military operation against dissatisfied with the coup d'etat of residents of the region. According to the summary data of the UN, the victims of the conflict were about 6, 5 thousand people. The settlement of the situation in the Donbass is discussed, as well as among them, during meetings in Minsk contact group, which since September of last year already took 3 of the document governing the steps to de-escalate the conflict.

The last document is dated 12 February - in addition to the ceasefire, withdrawal of heavy weapons and creating a security zone requires the Authorities of Ukraine to engage in direct dialogue with the authorized DND and LNR, for example, on the issue of conduct in local elections, entering into the Constitution of Ukraine of change, involving the decentralization of Power, as well as on the issue of legislative recognition of special status of separate districts of Donetsk and Lugansk regions ".

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