A brief but important update
A brief but important update.
1. About Makeyevka commandant. He was arrested for criminal cases. Currently he is detained and is giving testimonies. The armor was used for the possibility of armed resistance. They promised to bring the factual evidence on "Murky" from Makeyevka in the coming days. Actually, one may be perfectly sure that this is not the latest arrest of this kind. Also, the investigation of the connections between some of the DPR officials and the junta continues, in the observable future we'll see the arrests on this direction too.
2. The commandant of Snezhnoye Godovanets was also arrested lately. He was accused of illegal use of private property. I don't know all of the details just yet, at the end of the last year there were complaints from the locals against the commandant, but without anything concrete. Also, there is an investigation in a number of settlements due to the facts of stealing humanitarian aid or its reselling on the black market. The facts of misappropriations were also uncovered in some of the units. The Ministry of the State Security and other security structures work on the investigations.
3. Our forces continue to fortify the defense near Yelenovka and Dokuchayevsk to prepare for the possibility of the junta actually trying to make a break for the Petrovsky district and Mospino. According to the current information, the enemy may concentrate up to 4 heavy battalion-tactical groups plus various means of reinforcement for a strike. At this moment this group is considered to be the most dangerous. The probability of a successful junta offensive on Donetsk and Lugansk is evaluated to be not very high.
4. Over the recent days both sides suffered fairly serious losses in the area of Peski. Artillery was actively engaged, due to which both the junta and our side had personnel and materiel losses. The fighting there has a positional nature, where the artillery remains the main damage factor. The village itself is extremely damaged and will soon become an analog of Nikishino.
5. About Konstantinovka. Already after the start of the riot by the local residents, a couple of NAF sabotage/reconnaissance groups went into the city and, after taking a few bites from the enemy, retreated without losses. The unrest itself turned out to be mostly unexpected both for our forces and for the junta and had a spontaneous nature. The work of the SBU and other punitive organs of the junta will be intensified in Konstantinovka in the coming few days.
Click to view[Absent a proper version with English subtitles, the only option here for people who cannot understand spoken or written Russian is the so-called "drunken sailor option" - the machine translation of the machine-generated Russian transcript, which is available through the Settings Gear in the lower left corner => Subtitles/CC => Translate Captions option in the Youtube window. If you happen to have a link to a properly translated version of this video, then please send it to me or post it in the comments.
The local residents complain to the Ukrainian TV crew that the Ukrainian TV is lying all the time. They also argue that life was better when Konstantinovka was in the DPR and these kinds of incidents didn't happen. An argument follows. The video shows that there is significant anti-regime sentiment in the Donbass settlements controlled by the Ukrainian army.]
6. About Mariupol. The old underground movement, which formed during the summer of 2014 is effectively fully routed at this moment due to the active work by the SBU and traitors in the underground. Currently, a second wave of underground movement is being formed, thankfully the population sentiment is such that it is possible to find new recruits for the underground organizations. The fascists are preparing for a protracted defense on the Mariupol direction. The fighting for Shirokino is viewed by the sector command as an important element of deterring action in the forward defense zone of Mariupol.
Plus a warning from the LPR, which has to be maximally distributed.
URGENT MESSAGE FROM LPR ARMY!!! We request to maximally share this message with friends, in order to prevent and avoid subsequent false flag attacks! About 30-40 Ukrainian military with a large number of video operators and filming crews fired on a bridge and set a couple of buildings on fire in Stanitsa Luganskaya, LPR. Currently they change their clothes to the uniforms with LPR insignia, with Georgian ribbons, and other attributes of our forces. Another large-scale false-flag operation is being prepared. The first few false news injections in the Ukro-media are already out. WE STRONGLY ASK TO HELP AND SPREAD THE WORD!!!
http://cassad.net/tv/videos/6275/ (in Russian) - a video-summary from "Cassad-TV" for March 16-17
http://cassad.net/tv/videos/6278/ (in Russian) - the military map from "Cassad-TV" for March 16
http://cassad.net/category/war/1432-svodka-voennyh-sobytiy-v-novorossii-za-17032015.html (in Russian) - the summary of military events in Novorossia for March 17
http://voicesevas.ru/news/yugo-vostok/11099-hronika-voennyh-sobytiy-v-novorossii-za-18032015.html (in Russian) - the online-broadcast on the "Voice of Sevastopol" for March 18
Original article: http://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/2095786.html (in Russian)
Yandex translation of the comments posted to the original Russian blog entry:
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