March 2016 Dokuchaievsk skirmish
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A skirmish between Ukrainian and Donetsk People's Republic's reconnaissance troops took place near Dokuchaievsk in early March 2016, during the War in Donbass.
The Skirmish
On the night of March 4, a Ukrainian Special Forces squad patrolling along the Mariupol front detected a Russian-separatists special operations group near the town of Dokuchaievsk. Both sides engaged each other in a firefight that left two Ukrainian Spetznaz troops dead and several wounded.[3][4][1]
A Ukrainian presidential spokesman for the military operation in Eastern Ukraine, Andriy Lysenko, said the pro-Russian squadron suffered up to 30 fatalities in the battle, that involved coordinated actions by Ukrainian armed forces servicemen from several different service arms.[2]
Donetsk People's Republic spokesman, deputy defence minister Eduard Basurin, said several civilian casualties were caused by Ukrainian shelling in the neighboring village of Nikolayevka.[5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Censor.NET. "ADVANCED POINT. LAST BATTLE OF 73RD CENTER SOLDIERS YURII HORAISKYI AND OLEKSANDR KHMELIAROV ON MARCH 4, 2016". EN.Censor.net. Retrieved 2016-03-11.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Two Ukrainian military servicemen killed, 5 others injured in Donbas over past 24 hours". Interfax-Ukraine. Retrieved 2016-03-10.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "At least 2,609 soldiers killed in Russia's war against Ukraine". www.kyivpost.com. Retrieved 2016-03-10.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "Two Ukrainian soldiers killed in skirmishes with Russian-backed forces". uatoday.tv. Retrieved 2016-03-11.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ http://dnr-online.ru/v-rezultate-artillerijskogo-ognya-po-nikolaevke-so-storony-vsu-razrusheno-pyat-zhilyx-domov-eduard-basurin/
