The Staff showed a response of ATO soldiers to stage attacks on militants Shirokino
The militants fired at SHIROKANE in a few days from cannon artillery, tanks, mortars, grenade launchers and small arms.
This was reported March 18 in the press center of staff ATO in Facebook.
“In the village is increasing daily the number of completely destroyed buildings. The enemy is brazen. Continues the provocative attacks on our positions, using the full range of small arms and artillery and tanks and infantry fighting vehicles. Do not reduce the activity of the sniper group”, – said the commander of a battalion of Marines Victor Sycosis.
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In addition, he added that the attacks were conducted mainly from the temporarily occupied Sahanki, Dzerzhinsky, Lenin and Sergeevka.
During their stay the journalists of the press-group OTU “Mariupol” positions of the Ukrainian military again shelled.
“With the permission of the brigade commander, we gave the answer with the use of ZU-23-2 installed on the car, after five minutes of operation, the enemy ceased firing,” – said Viktor Sycosis.
Earlier it was reported that the headquarters of ATO claim a difficult situation: increased number of attacks, including the use of heavy weapons. So, as of 6 am on 18 March, the militants have carried out 112 attacks. During the day, killing four soldiers and three others injured.