Russia delivered from its territory to Ukraine's Luhansk and Donetsk regions 59 tanks, 24 armored fighting vehicles, four multiple rocket launchers, 104 military vehicles, more than 96 cisterns of fuel and more than 95 train cars of weapons, according to Yevhen Marchuk, Ukraine's representative to the Trilateral Contact Group on Donbas.
“The Russian Federation continues its clandestine military and technical support of militant groups in occupied areas of Donetsk and Luhansk regions using overland road and railway infrastructure,” Marchuk wrote on his Facebook page, citing documents, which, in his words, are prepared before each round of [Trilateral] peace talks held in Minsk.
“Some 59 tanks/self-propelled artillery pieces, 24 armored fighting vehicles, four multiple rocket launchers, 104 military vehicles, more than 96 cisterns of fuel and 95 train cars of weapons. Kremlin-backed military groups also continue to use unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to conduct reconnaissance on the territory of Ukraine from August 1 through August 25. Some 65 illegal crossings of the Ukraine’s state border [from the Russian Federation] were recorded over the same period,” Marchuk said.
According to Marchuk, Ukraine’s border with Russia was illegally crossed 260 times by road and rail (19 times in January, 36 times in February, 32 times in March, 33 times in April, 41 times in June and 37 times in July and August).
“Most of the shipments were made by rail to depots in Ilovaisk, Krasnodon, Rovenky, Kvashyne and Donetsk,” Marchuk said.
He added that from August 1 through August 25, 100 multiple rocket launchers (BM-21) were delivered to Khartsyzk (2), Donetsk (15), Mospyne (7), Krasny Luch (28), Horlivka (3), Lozove (3), Debaltseve (4), Bokove-Platove (8), Faschivka (3), Stakhanov (2), Olenivka (2), Manuyilivka (6), Kuteinykove (3), Makiyivka, Razdolne, Yasynuvata (2), Lukove (2), Kalynivka (2), Ilovaisk, Miusynsk (13), Kalynove and Telmanove, cities located in the 35-kilometer wide safety zone (along the line of demarcation between militant groups and Ukrainian government troops. Some 4 300 mm Smerch multiple rocket launching systems were discovered in Miusynsk from August 1 through August 25 within the 70-kilometer wide safety zone.
