Rosgvardeytsy liquidated the operators of Ukrainian drones on the territory of the Lugansk People's Republic (LPR), the press service of the department said.

“As a result of reconnaissance, the Russian Guardsmen recorded the coordinates of 13 operators of enemy unmanned aerial vehicles.

The operators were destroyed by artillery fire, ”the message says.

In addition, in the course of new reconnaissance and search activities in the LPR, the National Guard seized weapons and ammunition.

In particular, 14 foreign-made grenade launchers were found, including a Polish PG-7GM grenade launcher, an AT4SC-RS 84-mm anti-tank grenade launcher, two portable anti-aircraft missile systems, an American M136A1 flamethrower, seven Fagot and Kornet anti-tank guided missiles.

A Kalashnikov assault rifle, 70 units of 122-mm shells, 50 anti-tank and anti-personnel mines, 51 grenade launcher rounds, 13 grenades, 4 kg of explosives, and more than 3,000 rounds of various calibers were also found.

Shelling of Pervomaisk in the LPR

Several civilian facilities in the LPR were damaged as a result of the shelling of the settlement of Pervomaisk by Ukrainian troops using HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS), the republic said.

Also on russian.rt.com In the LPR, they said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired on Pervomaisk from the HIMARS MLRS

“As a result of shelling in the settlement of Pervomaisk, five apartment buildings were damaged, the building of the Pervomaiskugol enterprise was destroyed, the branch of the Pension Fund, the Zarya city center of culture and leisure, the Yunost complex children’s youth sports school, and a store were damaged,” the representative office reports. LPR at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC).

At the same time, the People's Militia of the LPR said on the morning of August 2 that over the past day they had destroyed up to 60 enemy personnel, six armored personnel carriers, three artillery installations and five vehicles.

Shelling of the DPR

During the day, Ukrainian troops shelled the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic 48 times, the DPR representative office in the JCCC reported.

“In the Donetsk direction, the enemy used the Grad MLRS, 155-, 152- and 122-mm artillery.

On Yasinovatsky - 122-mm artillery.

On Gorlovsky - Grad MLRS, 155- and 152-mm artillery, a tank, 120-mm mortars, ”the official report says.

It is noted that in total, the enemy fired 355 units of various ammunition across the territory of the DPR.

In total, over the past day, Ukrainian troops shelled the districts of 13 settlements of the republic.

One civilian was killed and four others were wounded.

As an RT correspondent reported from the scene, on the morning of August 2, the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired more than ten times at Donetsk from the Grad MLRS and 155-mm artillery.

It is specified that the shells were with prohibited mines "Petal".

Appeal to the UN Secretary General on the use of anti-personnel mines by the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Dmitry Polyansky, First Deputy Representative of Russia to the UN, said earlier that he had sent UN Secretary-General António Guterres and Chairman of the UN Security Council Zhang Jun information about the use of prohibited mines "Petal" by the Ukrainian military.

“On August 1, we sent a letter to the UN Secretary General and the Chairman of the Security Council, Permanent Representative of China Zhang Jun, with additional information about Ukrainian mining of civilian facilities in the Donbass with “Petal” mines.

They attached the relevant photographic materials to it, ”Polyansky wrote on Telegram.

According to him, the letter will be distributed as an official document of the Security Council and the UN General Assembly.

As previously reported by the authorities of Donetsk, five people were injured as a result of the spread of anti-personnel mines "Lepestok" by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the city the day before.