“Our intelligence obtained data on bringing to the highest levels of combat readiness and advancement to the leading positions of units and subunits of the EFU reserve in the Mariupol direction,” the Donetsk News Agency quotes the text of the emergency statement.
It is noted that units of the 406th artillery brigade of the Navy in the areas of the settlements Ternovoye, Kirovo, Andeyevka took up firing positions.
The reserve units of the 36th and 35th Marine Brigades advanced to the demarcation line and turned into battle formations.
“In Mariupol, the Azov regiment and units of the 56th motorized infantry brigade were raised by alarm,” the text says.
On August 4, the representative office of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic in the Joint Center for the Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC) reported that the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired on the village of Dolomitnoye in the north of Gorlovka.
Ukrainian political scientist, director of the Institute for Global Strategies Vadim Karasev, in an interview with the NSN, assessed the likelihood of progress in the Minsk process from Kiev.