“Today at 11:50 the enemy tried to strike our positions on the Mariupol direction near the village of October with the help of an unmanned aerial vehicle, but our defenders noticed the UAV in time and immediately proceeded to destroy it,” Bessonov said.

He noted that the Ukrainian security forces attempted to prevent the DNR servicemen from shooting down a UAV and opened fire on the positions of the People’s Militia. Nevertheless, the forces of the republic managed to destroy the drone, he fell in the "gray zone".

Earlier, the plenipotentiary representative of Russia at the negotiations in Minsk, Boris Gryzlov, called the use of UAVs by the Ukrainian military in the Donbass as a gross violation of the truce.