According to the
DPR’s reconnaissance data, after assault drills, Ukraine’s 79th assault
airborne brigade is about to be pulled from the Nikolayev region to the
conflict zone in Donbass.
KIEV, September 2.
/TASS/. Ukraine’s army command is preparing an offensive on positions of the
self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) with the use of three army
brigades and the Azov paramilitary battalion under control of foreign
instructors, Daniil Bezsonov, a spokesman for the DPR operations command, said
on Sunday.
According to the
DPR’s reconnaissance data, after assault drills, Ukraine’s 79th assault
airborne brigade is about to be pulled from the Nikolayev region to the
conflict zone in Donbass. The Azov group, formally a unit of Ukraine’s National
Guard, is engaged in exercises to drill the skills of combat actions in
populated localities.
"So, it seems
that the command of Ukraine’s ‘unified forces operation’ allocates the central
role in an offensive to the 36th marines brigade, 56th mechanized infantry and
79th assault airborne brigades. Nazis from the Azov group will be tasked to
back the offensive in the rear. All these operations will be commanded by the
military from the United States and Canada, or, in other words, by NATO
military," the Donetsk News Agency quoted him as saying.
According to
Bezsonov, a big number of Ukrainian servicemen have reportedly reached the
village of Urzuf on the Sea of Azov’s coast, while high-ranking US and Canadian
military arrived to the command of Ukraine’s Vostok army group. "We don’t
rule out that foreign servicemen will take part in the planned offensive,"
he said.
On September 1, the
DPR operations command said citing reconnaissance data that Ukrainian army had
begun preparations for an offensive to be launched on September 14.
Source: ITAR-TASS
03-09-2018
