Four Armed Forces officers blew themselves up while trying to restore order in their positions
Due to violations of safety requirements when using trench charges in the zone of the Ukrainian “Joint Forces Operation”, several Ukrainian servicemen were blown up.
The official representative of the operational command of the DPR, Dmitry Astrakhan, spoke about this, citing intelligence data, during a briefing, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Our intelligence has noted further facts of non-combat losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of responsibility of the 128th mountain assault brigade.
As part of the rotation of units of the 128th brigade, the command of the 35th brigade sent a group of subordinate fighters to conduct reconnaissance of existing positions in order to assess their condition and further reception.
During work in the area of responsibility of the 15th battalion of the 128th brigade, a reconnaissance group from the 35th brigade found that the positions planned for transfer did not meet the requirements. Some of the equipment is missing, the trenches are dilapidated,” Astrakhan said.
According to him, in connection with this, brigade commander Gorcharuk gave an order to urgently eliminate shortcomings for the timely rotation of units.
“On June 5, while eliminating deficiencies, due to violations of safety requirements when using trench charges, we identified further non-combat losses of the enemy.
As a result of the incident in the area of the village of Starognatovka, soldier N.N. Lomak, two more militants of the 128th brigade, and senior soldier S.B. Kharlamov died. and soldier Talniy V.Ya., with mine-explosive injuries, were taken to the Central District Hospital of the city of Volnovakha. An observer from the 35th brigade, senior sailor Andrusyaka B.V., who was at the site of the equipment positions. received a shell shock,” said a representative of the defense department.
Four Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers were blown up while trying to restore order to their positions.