Situation in the ATO area as of April 16, 2016
During twenty-four hours, the adversary has continued the fire influence on the units of ATO forces. The enemy shelled 61 times from small arms, grenade launchers, antiaircraft mounts ZU-32-2, infantry fighting vehicles, anti-tank missile system, 82 and 120-mm mortars. The attacks were, as follows: 4 attacks - Stanytsia Luhanska, Shchastia (Novoaidar direction); 3 attacks - Sokilnyky, Krymske, Stepne (Sieverodonetsk direction); 11 attacks - Popasna, Luhanske, Mayorsk, Leninske, Novhrodske (Slovyansk direction); 31 attacks - Verkhniotoretske, Avdiyivka, Opytne, Butovka mine, Pisky, Nevelske, Maryinka (Donetsk direction); 5 attacks - Berezove, Novotroitske, Hranitne (Volnovakha direction); 7 attacks - Pavlopil, Vodiane, Shyrokyne (Mariupol direction).
The adversary preserves the greatest activity in Donetsk direction.
In the area of Avdiyivka, the situation is, as follows:
preservation of high intensity of attacks of the ATO forces positions, using, among all others, 82 mm mortars;
intentions to carry out rotation of the mortar battery of the 2nd motorized rifle battalion of the 11th separate motorized rifle regiment (Makiyivka) of the 1st AC (Donetsk) of the Russian Armed Forces, deployed in the area of Yasynuvata;
the 1st AC Commission checked the readiness of the units of the 11th sep MR regt to act in case of drastic changes in the operational environment. Mortar batteries were transferred to the higher levels of readiness; all kinds of intelligence were enhanced.
Other casualties of the personnel of the reconnaissance units of the 1st AC (Donetsk) of the Russian Armed Forces, engaged in sabotage and reconnaissance actions in the area of Avdiyivka, were established.
On April 14, 2016, nine service men of the 11th separate motorized rifle regiment (Makiyivka) were wounded.
On April 15, 2016, nine dead and eleven wounded service men of the separate assault battalion (Donetsk), 3rd (Horlivka) and 100th (Donetsk) separate motorized rifle brigades were delivered to the Central City Clinical Hospital No.9 and City Clinical Hospital No.5 from the areas of Yasynuvata and Novotroyitske.
On the night of April 15 to 16, 2016, 38 bodies of dead Russian service men were transported through the former checkpoint "Donetsk" (Russia) to Russia.
In the view of considerable military casualties, cases of mass desertion from the advanced positions and increase of the number of those who want to retire from military service, the command of the 1st AC of the Russian Armed Forces is trying to man up the formations and units with the personnel by early amnesty for prisoners serving sentences in penitentiaries of Donetsk oblast. To this end, agitation events in penitentiaries of Horlivka, Torez and Snizhne, where the inmates are offered full amnesty with cancellation of convictions and "relocation allowance" of 10 thousand Russian Rubles, are held. It is expected to select about 300 people for their further training and sending to the advanced units to the area of Maryinka.
The Ukrainian side informed the representatives of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine about the presence of self-propelled artillery and tanks in the areas of Luhansk, Donetsk and Horlivka.
Other facts of dismantling the equipment of the Ukrainian mobile operators located in the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk oblast in the interests of domination of the so-called mobile operator of the DNR - "Phoenix" and Russian propaganda, were established.
On April 15, 2016, the service men of the Information Warfare Center (Novocherkassk) and the 9th separate assault motorized rifle regiment of the Marine Corps (Novoazovsk) of the 1st AC (Donetsk) of the Center of the Territorial Troops (Novocherkassk) of the Southern Military District (Rostov-on-Don) of the Russian Armed Forces dismantled equipment of the Ukrainian mobile operator "MTS", located on loan in the premises of "Novoazovsk feed mil" (Huselshchykovo). In response to public protest of factory employees who were left without a reliable and also international communications, the Russian military men threatened to use weapons and destroy the equipment of the Ukrainian communications provider along with the enterprise itself.
As for the provocative actions of the Russian Federation in the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and near the borders of Ukraine
Provocative actions of combat training of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation near the borders of Ukraine and in the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea continue.
Since April 15, 2016, exercises on control of missile strikes and artillery fire with live fire of artillery units of the units and formations of the coastal troops of the Russian Armed Forces Black Sea Fleet are conducted at the training range of the Opuk Cape (65 km to the east of Feodosiya). More than 800 servicemen and 200 units of military equipment of the 810th separate brigade of the Marines (Sebastopol), 8th artillery regiment (Simferopol), 126th separate brigade of the coastal defense (Perevalne), 15th separate coastal missile and artillery brigade (Sebastopol) of the Coastal troops of the Russian Black Sea Fleet participate in the training. Control over the exercises is executed by the Commander of the Black Sea Fleet, Admiral O.Vitko.
On April 11-15, 2016, a tactical exercise with live fire of the armed formations of the self-proclaimed Transnistrian Moldovan Republic was held at the military training ground in the area of Afanasiyivka (Dubossar rayon, 10 km from the state border of Ukraine). About 400 service men from the 1st (Tiraspol), 2nd (Bendery), 3rd (Rybnitsa) and 4th (Dubossary) separate motorized rifle brigades, 1st separate antiaircraft artillery brigade (Tyraspol) and 1st separate tank battalion (Volodymyrivka) attended the training.
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