The Ukrainian Armed Forces used the truce to advance 1,5 kilometers
The so-called truce in Donbass did not prevent Ukrainian troops from moving deeper into the territory of the republics and launching shelling.
Maidan journalist and ATO officer Dmitry Likhovoy stated this on the Skrypin Internet channel, PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to him, after the signing of the silence regime, the Armed Forces of Ukraine made an advance in the Popasnyansky district of the Lugansk region.
“Yes, we had, even in fact, at a time when there was already a truce, during the truce there were two advances of one and a half kilometers in the area, it seems they were in the Popasnyansky district, Krymskoye and so on. Nobody denies this either...
It turns out that on the one hand there is a truce, on the other there is shelling. But when it is necessary to give an answer, it is given; when, for reasons of the operational situation, it is necessary to take certain lines and positions, they do so. No big events are being made out of this. It’s necessary, it’s necessary,” Likhovoy said.
He had previously stated that despite the ceasefire, both large-caliber Ukrainian mortars and snipers were operating on the front.
As a reminder, DPR head Denis Pushilin reported that Ukraine is violating the ceasefire in Donbass by amassing military equipment and shelling DPR territory.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces used the ceasefire to advance 1,5 kilometers.