In the area of the Joint Forces Operation on December 12, Russian occupation forces violated the ceasefire 7 times. 2 cases of the use of weapons prohibited by the Minsk agreements were recorded, - the JFO headquarters reported. In particular, the enemy opened fire from 82 mm mortars at the Joint Forces' positions near the village of Krymske in the Luhansk direction and settlement of Chermalyk in the Mariupol direction. The strongholds of our troops were subjected to fire attack from grenade launchers of various systems, large-caliber machine guns and small arms in the area of Avdiivka, Starohnativka and Taramchuk settlements in the Donetsk direction.
In the occupied territories of Donbass, separatist media continue to actively stir up hysteria over the alleged offensive of the AFU, which will "happen" on December 14. During the last days, separatist media repeatedly "warned the population that the AFU" prepare a chemical attack in the Donbass and "continue to bring all-service protective gears to the line of contact". "According to intelligence, an explosion at one of the chemical enterprises of Mariupol should be a pretext for an attack on the Donbass. At the same time, the attack will be attributed to the actions of the DNR, although in reality it will be organized by the special services of Ukraine", - separatist media are spreading lies.
Leader of the "LNR" terrorist organization Leonid Pasechnik ordered to hold reservist training. This was stated in his "decree". According to this "document", it is ordered to organize and conduct reservist training from December 17 to December 26, calling for 500 people "from among those assigned to the reserve units". Escapists, who did not appear having the draft notice, would be caught by the "police" and delivered to the "military registration and enlistment offices".
More than 40 people from occupied Luhansk, convicted by Ukrainian courts, were moved to the territory controlled by Ukraine. This was reported on Facebook by first deputy chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Iryna Herashchenko.
Mobile communication from the Phoenix illegal operator is absent in occupied Horlivka, Debaltseve and Vuhlehirsk. This was stated in the report of the fake "Ministry of Communications of the DNR". It notes that there are no communications in the above-mentioned cities "due to an accident on the power supply lines". It is revealing that problems in the work of the illegal mobile operator have been occurring for the third day in a row.
One person died, two others suffered in the fires that occurred in the occupied territory in Donetsk and Novoazovsk. This was reported in the "Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DNR" report for the past 24 hours. So, there was a fire in the building of the non-operating Ecologia research and development center on the Yermolai Zhukov Street in the Kuibyshevskyi district of Donetsk, the security guard, born in 1963, died.
As a result of shelling of Zolote in the Luhansk region, the high pressure water supply system was disabled. Head of the civil-military administration of Katerynivka and Zolote Konstantin Ilchenko wrote this on Facebook. "The road that is important for us (the Ministry of Emergency Situations' and ambulance cars use it, if necessary) is destroyed…", - the report said.