The main news of the Donbas: there are battles again in the vicinity of Donetsk; “DPR” wants to seize three more towns

DuringMay 29, oneservicemanperished, sixwerewoundedintheATOzone. According to the ATO press center information, there were ATO casualties in the vicinity of Donetsk where the hostilities resumed near the airport.

The situation is not stable in Maryinka and around it.Near the settlement of Berezove, Ukrainian positions were being shelled from Grads, multiple rocket launchers, for half an hour. The information was presented by Andriy Lysenko, ATO spokesman of the Administration of the President of Ukraine. According to him, militants are shelling not only servicemen. Last morning they shelled the settlement of Granytnefrom 120-mm grenade launchers. Besides, yesterday evening, there was shooting from small arms near Horlivka, and from grenade launchers – near the settlement of Kyrove.

IllyaKyva, Deputy Head of the Donetsk Region State Department of the Interior Ministry of Ukraine, asks citizens of Kyiv to block “Sheriff –Tour” buses which go from Kyiv to the territory controlled by militants. He wrote on his page of the Facebook, “Citizens and activists of Kyiv, block the movement of “Sheriff-Tour” buses Kyiv-Donetsk, Donetsk-Kyiv. This bus carrier contributes to the spread of the plague of terrorism and mud on the territory of Ukraine.”

Russian journalist Roman Manekin, who supports the illegal “DPR”, has disappeared in Donetsk. People who know him say he was arrested.

Before that, Manekin supported the idea of bringing Denys Pushylyn, one of the “DPR” leaders, to justice, accusing him of separatism in the interests of Ukraine.

As the result of shelling in the direction of Mariupol, a serviceman of the National Guard of Ukraine was wounded in the vicinity of Shyrokyne at night, May 29.

OleksandrZakharchenko, head of the so-called “Donetsk People’s Republic” made a statement about his plan to gain control over three more towns in the Donetsk region which militants had to leave last year. They are Slovyansk, Kostyantynivka, and Krasnoarmiysk.