The situation in the zone of the ATO remains difficult.

About this at the briefing said the speaker ATO Andrei Lysenko, passes the Censor.NET.

"In the area of the antiterrorist operation is the most complicated situation is around the g.. Debaltsevo. This area is fixed accumulation enemy vehicles from Stakhanov and Snow. For the day of Russian mercenaries fired 13 times Debaltsevo and surroundings of artillery and 5 times unsuccessfully tried to storm our position. Successfully defending our military destroyed 4 enemy tanks," said he.

"The militants tried to storm Vodnye force bases ATO near C. the heater, Luhansk and Novogrigorievka, Chernukhin Artemovsky district, Donetsk region. The attack reflected. The political goal of capturing Develasco springboard is the desire of the Russian curators militants to force Ukraine to make concessions to the bandits and sign a truce with them on the Kremlin conditions", - said Lysenko.

"Very destructive factor is the entry to the occupied territory of Donbass another Russian so-called" humanitarian convoy, which is linked to the danger of further escalation of armed confrontation in the Donbass. In particular, the border crossing point "Donetsk" drove 70 cars (41 truck, 21 truck, 8 cars service and support, and through the checkpoint "Matveyev Kurgan - 103 car (73 truck, 20 trucks, 10 car maintenance and support ). All these facts indicate a complete disregard for Russia Minsk agreements and diplomatic efforts of the international community that now are taken to de-escalate the situation in the East of Ukraine", - said the speaker of the ATO.

During the day the enemy had carried out an aggressive aerial reconnaissance using unmanned aircraft. Flight 4 UAVs our military is recorded in the area of N. p. Sartana, Mariupol and Severodonetsk, and 3 more on the plot edge Department "Red Talovka", 2 of which crossed the Ukrainian-Russian border.

For the last day 9 of the Ukrainian soldiers were killed, 26 - were injured.

Because of the constant attacks of the terrorists suspended skip in check points through the line of demarcation "Gotovo", "Stanichno-Lugansk" and "Happiness".

Source: http://censor.net.ua/