Terrorists, despite a truce and statements for branch of arms, continue attacks and attempts of storm of positions of the Ukrainian army.

The representative of a staff of Anti-terrorist operation colonel Andrey Lysenko reported about it at a daily briefing today, the Censor.NET.

"For the last days the greatest tension in the anti-terrorist operation zone was observed in the area. Avdeevki and settlement. Sand. Our positions more than 10 times were fired by fighters from small arms, grenade launchers, mortars and artillery. Also the opponent's sniper worked. We will remind that fighters repeatedly declared that take away artillery from the line of differentiation", - he told.

"In the area Lugansk the Artemovsky region of Donetsk region of NVF fired and tried to storm strong points of anti-terrorist operation forces. All attacks are reflected", - Lysenko added

"On this background doesn't stop deliveries by the Russian side through uncontrollable to Ukraine sites of the Russian-Ukrainian border in the territory of Donetsk and Lugansk areas of a significant amount of arms and military equipment", - Lysenko told.

"This information was confirmed by the ambassador of the USA in Ukraine Jeffrey Payette. According to the diplomat, the USA have proofs of that the Russian officers and generals participate in military operations in the east of Ukraine. "We know that Russia uses modern electronic systems of guidance of rockets of the class "surface-to-air"... Regular parts of the Russian army took part in capture Debaltseve... Russia directed hundreds and hundreds of units of heavy arms since December..." - the speaker of anti-terrorist operation of the American diplomat quotes.

"Also the opponent carries out a re-deployment of heavy arms and military equipment, first of all on the Mariupol direction", - Lysenko added.

Source : http://censor.net.ua/