Maryinka freed from separatists – Ukraine's Poroshenko


On Thursday a special operation was carried out in Maryinka, which resulted in liberating the village from pro-Russian separatists, Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko said.

12 subversives, including a citizen of Russia, were detained. The representatives of the self-proclaimed Donetsk say that he is not a soldier, but a volunteer.

Heavy fighting between Ukraine’s army and the pro-Russian militants resumed in Maryinka on June 3. For the last day 5 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed, 39 – injured. Illegal armed groups have lost up to 10 armored vehicles, 80 militants were killed and over 100 were wounded.

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Earlier, Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko told his military to be prepared for the possibility of a ‘full-scale invasion’ by Russia across the entire length of the joint border.

NATO said on Thursday Russia was delivering sophisticated weaponry to rebels in eastern Ukraine, renewing long-standing accusations amid the worst upsurge in fighting in months between the Kyiv government’s forces and pro-Russian rebels.

“We have precise information that Russia is present in eastern Ukraine and that it has delivered large quantities of heavy, advanced weapons to the separatists,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told reporters in Oslo. “Artillery, anti-aircraft systems, advanced weapons systems. They have supplied more than 1,000 units of this kind to the separatists.”

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