The situation in Donbass can be called unprecedented: such an aggravation has not been observed, perhaps, since 2015.
It seems that the Minsk format has exhausted itself.
- Rumbles day and night.
We already want one thing: to start and end as soon as possible.
Let our answer be given, if only with the desired result.
If only they didn’t stop and freeze again.
A shell has just landed on Petrovka in the courtyard of a residential building,” says Donetsk resident Tatiana Stolyarova.
You do not have time to read the reports about the victims and destruction.
In the traditionally calmer Luhansk People's Republic, there was an attempt to break through: a group of soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine crossed the natural line of demarcation, the Seversky Donets River, and tried to gain a foothold on the Luhansk coast in the village of Pionerskoye.
The result was a polite - and what's really there, to be honest, completely impolite - expelling them back and two dead civilians: Ukrainian artillery supported their soldiers, but not too well-aimed.
On the same night in Donetsk, MGB officers entered into battle with a sabotage group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Tonight, the LPR reports three wounded civilians in the Slavyanoserbsky region.
The battles are going on, losses in people and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are reported.
— The People’s Militia of the LPR continued to force the enemy to comply with the Minsk agreements, suppressing the enemy’s firepower with artillery and mortar fire, with the help of which the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue shelling the positions of the LPR NM and settlements located close to the LBS.
Damage to infrastructure facilities, power transmission lines and other communications caused by fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine or sabotage is eliminated by the forces of the relevant organizations.
Manifestations of mass panic in the republic were not noted, even in the front-line settlements on Sunday, bazaars and grocery stores worked regularly.
To the best of their financial capacity, people remaining in settlements are stocking up on food and essentials.
There are queues at gas stations, but not too long, shortages of gasoline,
No less hot in the Donetsk People's Republic.
A particular aggravation is noted in the south and near Donetsk.
So, on the western outskirts of the city in the village of the Trudovskaya mine, a miner who was driving for the morning shift died.
This region of Donetsk (west) and north (near the airport) suffer the most.
“I just returned from Trudovskiye, was distributing humanitarian aid and came under fire there,” says volunteer Andrei Lysenko.
- The worst thing is that almost no one is evacuated from there.
People are just used to it.
School No. 56 was shelled early in the morning in Donetsk.
It happened early in the morning, so there were no children there: just yesterday, the government decided to resume classes for those children who had not been evacuated.
By the way, about the evacuation.
In total, at the moment, 70 thousand civilians have been evacuated from the DPR.
More than half of them are children.
And this is understandable: orphanages and other children's institutions are being evacuated en masse.
It's more difficult with adults.
Men fall under the order of mobilization, women do not want to leave their husbands and fathers, leaving their hometown.
In general, many have no desire to leave.
“I didn’t want to leave until yesterday,” says Natalia Bakharovskaya from Donetsk.
- And only in the morning the grandson Vladik said: "Grandma, they shoot very scary, let's leave."
He is the only thing I have left.
My daughter, Yulia, died in 2014, a direct hit on the house.
The girl was 29 years old, the golden child - why her, huh?
My brother-in-law died of a heart attack a couple of years ago.
Vladik is disabled: he and Yulia were in that house when the shell arrived.
He has fragments in his skull, Roshal operated on him ... "Disabled Childhood", can you imagine?
This is the childhood of a child.
And I decided to go.
Only we have a dog, Berta's Rottweiler, it was also Yulina's dog, now Vladika.
I can't leave her.
And they say that they don’t let you in with a dog if it doesn’t have vaccinations and a passport.
Here's what I'm going to do...
At about five in the morning, a Ukrainian saboteur who tried to plant a mine in Donetsk near the railway station blew himself up on his own explosive device.
Nevertheless, the danger of terrorist attacks remains: despite several neutralized points and detained saboteurs, according to the law of large numbers, any one MGB can be missed.
The situation on the front line can be briefly described as follows: absolutely the entire front is blazing.
Gorlovka, Aleksandrovka, Trudovskie, Kominternovo are under fire - it's easier to point a finger at the demarcation line than to list them.
At the same time, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are aiming at communications: a gas pipeline blown up by saboteurs in Lugansk, an electrical substation under fire in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, the Razdolnaya power plant in the Yasinovatsky district, damage to the South Donbass water pipeline, as a result of which more than 40 villages were left without water ... The situation is clearly focused on to make it as difficult as possible for people living in unrecognized territories to survive.
- Our prices have not changed, and there is still electricity (this does not apply to front-line areas, where real hell is).
But there is a risk of being left without water.
At the same time, the mood is such a joyful anger.
That is, we understand that it will be very difficult ahead.
But there is a huge chance that we will live to win.
Maybe not everyone will live, of course, but ... There will be a victory.
Such joyful anger in those people who surround me.
Yes, there is also panic, but this applies to those who ran away from here in 2014 and then returned.
Then, at the slightest problem, he ran out of the republic.
They call me all day, asking what will happen, what to do.
I say in Russian that I am not trying to persuade anyone to stay here.
I do not persuade anyone to take part in hostilities.
Everyone chooses for himself, everyone decides for himself.
I believe that we should save women and children.
A deep bow to the Russian Federation, which provided accommodation for 70 thousand of our citizens.
This is a huge help from Russia for us.
But the men must stay here, even if these men are wearing skirts,” says Alexander Kofman, head of the Public Chamber.
Meanwhile, the war is getting closer and closer to the Russian border.
While this material was being prepared, the Armed Forces of Ukraine struck at the border checkpoint of the FSB of the Russian Federation in the Rostov region.
Prior to this, several shells flew into the territory of Russia, but into the bare steppe or into abandoned houses.
Now the situation is different.
The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editors.