{"id":488407,"date":"2022-02-17T16:24:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T14:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/?p=488407"},"modified":"2022-02-17T15:52:27","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T13:52:27","slug":"escalation-in-donbas-heightened-militants-attack-more-than-20-kyiv-controlled-settlements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/escalation-in-donbas-heightened-militants-attack-more-than-20-kyiv-controlled-settlements\/","title":{"rendered":"Escalation in Donbas heightened: Militants attack more than 20 Kyiv-controlled settlements"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Since the beginning of February 17, 34 ceasefire violations have been recorded in Donbas. As a result of the shelling, two Ukrainian soldiers were injured. It is reported by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/100064359595429\/posts\/314218330733484\/?app=fbl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Joint Forces Operation<\/a> headquarters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The militants used artillery of 122 mm caliber, mortars of 120 mm caliber, and mounted anti-tank grenade launchers to attack the Kyiv-controlled settlements and Ukraine&#8217;s Armed Forces positions. More than 20 settlements along the contact line were targeted, Ukraine&#8217;s side reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two Ukrainian servicemen, as well as two civilians, get injured as a result of the hostile attack. The servicemen were hospitalized, their condition was moderate. Two civilians were wounded as a result of shelling by the Russian occupation forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read also: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/140-000-russian-troops-amassed-at-ukraine-s-borders-no-signs-of-stand-down-latest-data-from-kyiv\/\">140,000 Russian troops amassed at Ukraine\u2019s borders, no signs of stand-down, \u2013 latest data from Kyiv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>February 17, the situation in the Donbas conflict area worsened after a relative lull. As reported earlier, Russia-backed militants shelled a number of civilian facilities, including a school and a kindergarten. Russian occupation troops fired Stanytsia Luhanska, a Kyiv-controlled settlement in the Luhansk region, with heavy artillery weapons. The shells <a href=\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/russia-backed-militants-shelled-kindergarten-in-luhansk-region-leaving-wounded-civilians-evacuated\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hit the building of a kindergarten<\/a>. Two civilians were injured. Local train station, as well as locomotive depot came under shelling too. The station and depot workers were not injured. One diesel locomotive was damaged. Depot buildings were targeted as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/ZelenskyyUa\/status\/1494283786531618822\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read also:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/russia-backed-militants-shelled-kindergarten-in-luhansk-region-leaving-wounded-civilians-evacuated\/\">Russia-backed militants shelled kindergarten in Luhansk region leaving wounded, civilians evacuated<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Russian occupation forces <a href=\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/donbas-war-russia-backed-militants-fire-school-30-children-hide-in-basement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">targeted a lyceum in the village of Vrubivka<\/a> in the Luhansk region (territory is controlled by Kyiv). During the class, 30 students were forced to hide in a school basement.\u00a070 apartments in high-rise buildings and 96 private houses are left without gas supply, as the hostile forces fired with 122-mm mortars, prohibited by the Minsk agreements. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/russia-stages-pretext-for-attack-after-reports-of-multiple-shelling-incidents-nato\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg <\/a>has said the alliance is concerned that Russia is \u201ctrying to stage a pretext for an armed attack against Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read also:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/russia-backed-militants-shelled-kindergarten-in-luhansk-region-leaving-wounded-civilians-evacuated\/\">Russia-backed militants shelled kindergarten in Luhansk region leaving wounded, civilians evacuated<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the beginning of February 17, 34 ceasefire violations have been recorded &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":488419,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,36422,36420,55],"tags":[],"sources":[],"class_list":["post-488407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","category-11473-news-en-3","category-11473-ukraine-en","category-ukraine-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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