Summary of events from eastern Ukraine for the 8th of August, 2015 (according to the Informator.lg.ua)

Friends, we keep you informed about main news of the last Saturday.

Representatives of a Joint Center of Coordination and Ceasefire and OSCE report about destruction of residential areas on demarcation line from heavy armaments by separatists.

Luhansk region. It is quiet in Luhansk, there was no shelling. There are still problems with drinking water and electricity supply.

Separatists shelled almost all along demarcation line in Luhansk region.

Two Ukrainian soldiers were injured during night shelling of Shchastie city.

Stanitsa Luhanskaya was shelled from mortars of 82 mm, grenade launchers and small armaments.

On Bahmut road fighters shelled Popasnaya, Novotoshkovskoe, Orehovo and Troitskoe from artillery of 122 mm, forbidden by the Minsk agreements. Fighters shelled Pervomaysk at night and damaged power sub-station and water conduit. About 12 000 households have no water supply and electricity.

Donetsk region. Donetsk was shelled yesterday at night and in the evening. New powerful explosion thundered in Donetsk yesterday. Local residents reported about a cloud of smoke in Leninskiy area of the city from the side of the “Donetsk metallurgical works”. Fighters shelled residential areas of Donetsk at night. Local residents reported that one shell fell on Abakumova street, on a stadium near School №85. Aleksandrovka village in Petrovskiy area was also shelled. According to the Press Office of the Donetsk City Council 8 power sub-stations are off in Donetsk, 229 subscribers have no gas supply. Separatists attacked Mariinka and Novomihailovka from tanks. Ukrainian positions near Opytnoe village were shelled from small armaments. Separatists shelled Avdeevka city from mortars of 120 mm early in the morning. No one was hurt or injured.

Separatists from Gorlovka shelled Dzerzhinsk city early in the morning. They used artillery of 152 mm and howitzers D 30 of 120 mm, located on the territory of chemical plant “Stirol”. Three local residents were injured. Electricity was cut off in a part of the city, including three mines: Dzerzhinskaya, Severnaya, Toretskaya. 216 people were blocked underground. Separatists in Gorlovka shelled residential areas from machine gun from the territory of a school.

Two people died and three got injured in a car accident on Slavyansk-Donetsk-Mariupol road in the buffer zone.

In Mariupol direction separatists shelled ATO positions near Granitnoe village from artillery of 122 mm.

Good news – three Ukrainians were released from separatists’ captivity. All of them are civilians.

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