Situation at the Ukrainian-Russian border

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13 of August 2014 16:47

Border guard units continue carrying out tasks on protection and defense of the state border of Ukraine under extremely complex and strenuous conditions.&

Border guard units continue carrying out tasks on protection and defense of the state border of Ukraine under extremely complex and strenuous conditions.

Attacks on places of deployment of border guard units and attacks on border guard patrols are continuing:

From 11.15 a.m. to 12.05 p.m. (12.08.14), fire confrontation was held between border guards and terrorists in the area of settlement Pobeda (Donetsk region). Bandits using small arms attacked border guard patrol, who had served for the protection of the state border. Border guards opened fire in response and countered the attack. As a result of the armed conflict one border guard suffered injuries in the hand;

From 10.45 p.m. to 11.00 p.m., the mortar and artillery attack on border guard unit was performed on the axis of settlements “Voloshyno” (Russia) – “Krasna Talivka” (Ukraine). The fire was executed from Russian territory. There were no injuries. The flight of unmanned aircraft was a preliminary to bombardment. Border guard patrol traced aircraft at the height of about 2 km at 10.20 p.m.;

From 10.40 p.m. to 11.30 p.m., the artillery attack on border block-post (Luhansk region) was performed on the axis of settlements “Manotskyi” (Russia) – “Kamyshyne” (Ukraine). The fire was executed from Russian territory. There were no injuries;

From 11.50 a.m. to 12.35 p.m., another mortar attack was performed on “Uspenka” border crossing point. There were no injuries. The first attack was held between 02.50 a.m. and 03.30 a.m., while terrorists performed about 150 shots on border crossing point. As a result of bombardment, the building of border crossing point and communications lines were demaged.

Yesterday two OSCE Special Monitoring Missions worked on the border. From 12.45 p.m. to 02.30 p.m., representatives of OSCE Special |Monitoring Mission visited ”Pysarivka” border crossing point (Sumy region) and got acquainted with engineering construction on the border area. At 03.00 p.m., representatives of OSCE visited “Tymkove” border crossing point (Kotovsk border guard detachment).

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