Fighters of “DPR” lost about 140 people in combats near Starognatovka. It was reported to the Informator.lg.ua by a closed source. He said that Russian career officers and local “members of militia” were among the dead. Local fighters are buried on Mospino cemetery in Donetsk region, bodies of Russian servicemen are taking to the RF by humanitarian convoys.

The source added that humanitarian convoys come before intensification of shelling and after big battles in purpose.

It was reported earlier that AFU’s positions near Starognatovka, Telmanovskiy district in Donetsk region, were shelled by fighters from heavy armaments of 152 mm.