Tuesday results in the occupied territories of Donbass. The highlights
In the area of the Joint Forces Operation on August 4, the units of the Joint Forces continue to adhere to the terms of the ceasefire, conscientiously fulfilling their tasks as intended, while the Ukrainian soldiers are constantly ready to adequately respond to possible dangerous actions of the enemy, - the JFO headquarters reported. The situation remains completely under the control of our soldiers. Three attacks from the enemy have been recorded in the areas of responsibility of Ukrainian units in the area of the operation since the beginning of the day. The military personnel of the Joint Forces did not open fire in response to deliberate provocations by the enemy. There are no combat losses and injuries among the personnel.
At least 10 units of armored combat vehicles and about 30 trucks with small arms were delivered by Russia to the occupied part of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts through the uncontrolled section of the border during the past week. This was announced by official representative of the Ministry of Defense Maksym Prauta.
Occupation authorities of the "DNR" recognized 44 new cases of COVID-19 over the last two days. This was said in the report of the so-called "Ministry of Health". At the same time, in order to demonstrate the correctness of the decision on the limited admission of citizens to the occupied territory only according to the lists of some "operational headquarters" with the obligatory passage of a two-week observation, the "Ministry of Health" reported that 16 people out of 44 diseased arrived from the territory controlled by Ukraine. At the same time, according to the occupiers, only two cases were imported from coronavirus-hit Russia.
The so-called "supreme court" of the "LNR" sentenced a resident of occupied Alchevsk to 13 years in prison "for high treason", separatist media reported. "From 2016 to 2017, a resident of Alchevsk committed high treason in the form of espionage, expressed in the collection, updating and transfer of information about current employees of the executive bodies of state power and law enforcement agencies of the LNR, as well as… providing other assistance to a foreign state in activities aimed against the safety of the Republic, expressed in checking the possibility of delivering prohibited items to the territory of the LNR by making them look like household goods", - the report of the "court" said. Now the verdict of the "court" has come into "legal force", the man convicted by the militants is in custody.