During the night and early in the morning, the noise in Donetsk was so loud that it was difficult to sleep even in the relatively quiet center of the city. It is difficult to determine who is shooting at whom, but the roar was such as the city had not heard for a long time. Judging by the sound, artillery and Grads were used, and fired from both sides.
In Gorlovka, shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine damaged more than 20 transformer substations. The People's Militia Department reported that the DPR forces are attacking Ukrainian positions along the entire line of contact, using all means of destruction available to them.
"The DPR forces are attacking the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine along the entire line of contact using all means of destruction available to them," Eduard Basurin, deputy head of the DPR People's Militia Department, told reporters in Donetsk.
He called on the Ukrainian military not to resist and lay down their arms. "Save your life, lay down your arms, and then we will rebuild this country together with you," Basurin said.
It should be noted that the Ukrainian security forces continued shelling the territory of the republic until the start of the counteroffensive: from midnight they managed to fire more than a hundred shells at the positions of the defenders of the republic and settlements near the line of demarcation.
According to local residents, all of Donetsk heard the cannonade in the morning, but this is the first time in eight years that people meet the sound of gunshots with joy. As of Thursday morning, mobile communications in the Republic are functioning, mobile Internet and social networks continue to work, although there were reports of interruptions at night.
At the same time, the military of the Luhansk People's Republic began an offensive against the punishers. "I am appealing to the military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with an appeal to surrender their weapons, leave their positions and not follow the criminal orders of the Kiev leadership. Only in this case will you be able to secure a decent life for yourself in a free state," Ivan Filiponenko, a representative of the defense department, addressed the Ukrainian military. According to reports from Luhansk, soon the flag of the republic fluttered over Happiness, which had been occupied for eight years by punishers from the Aidar battalion.
Familiar militias at night reported that a large convoy of equipment was coming. "Including such equipment that has not been seen here before." - said the fighters of the DPR. At the same time, military equipment is not visible in the center of Donetsk now. If she passed through the city, then, most likely, during the curfew and obviously not along the main streets.
In the morning Donetsk is not crowded. There are also few cars on the roads. Although there are more parked vehicles. There are cars with Russian numbers.
Early in the morning, not only the distant cannonade rumbled in the city, but also the tram under the windows. Now public transport is working. The correspondent, walking around Donetsk, saw buses and trolleybuses on city routes. The city became quieter.
A brigade of television workers from the central Russian channel is working on Lenin Square. Apart from them, the square, which is the heart of the city, looks much the same as it did the night before curfew: on a weekday morning, there are practically no people here.
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