Night fighting on border

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22 of May 2014 16:22

Terrorists have made several attempts to break through the state border of Ukraine in Luhansk region.

These started with the fact that on May, 21

Terrorists have made several attempts to break through the state border of Ukraine in Luhansk region.

These started with the fact that on May, 21, in the evening (at 10 p.m.), the border patrol of “Krasnodon” border guard division detected 3 trucks (“Kamaz”) accompanied by car (“Nyva”) which were trying to enter Ukraine from Russian Federation. They failed to respond the border guards’ demand to stop and the fire warning shots into the air, and attempted to break through into the territory of Ukraine. Only after the border guards started the destructive fire, those vehicles had turned back to Russian territory.

Russian side was officially informed (via border-representative communications channels) on the fact that it was the fourth case of vehicles passing from Russian Federation freely and stopped by Ukrainian border guards.

Later on the same day (at 11 p.m.), the group of 30 people armed with automatic weapon, including auto-machine gun, drove to “Stanychno-Luhanske” border guard division and delivered an ultimatum - to lay the arms down and to vacate the premises of the border unit. That was strongly denied to them.

Past midnight, after being reinforced the gunmen started assault using automatic rifles, auto-machine guns, grenade launchers and hand grenades. Border guards were shoot by snipers located in neighbor buildings. The combat action lasted one hour and a half. Border guards have defeated three attacks against their unit and forced the attackers to withdraw. But the unit is still being surrounded by snipers. During the battle, border guards using grenades have destroyed two snipers’ firing points. They also damaged the road roller that was used by attackers to break through the unit’s gates. In fact, there are those who were injured and contused among the border guards.

To respond adequately the strong aggravation of situation at the area of “Stanychno-Luhanske” border guard division, the border reserve forces are moved up; the Anti-terrorist Operation command staff and cooperating law enforcement bodies were informed; joint actions to wipe out terrorists are being planned.

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