Russian-controlled militants are planning to shell their own positions and residential areas on both sides of the contact line in Donbas, eastern Ukraine, today when the Trilateral Contact Group on the settlement of the Donbas crisis is meeting in Minsk, according to the press center of the Ukrainian Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) Headquarters.
"According to recent reports, on the day of a Trilateral Contact Group meeting in Minsk, the militants are planning to cynically use heavy weapons while shelling their own positions and residential areas on both sides of the contact line – in the controlled and uncontrolled areas of Ukraine," the ATO HQ wrote on Facebook on January 18, citing intelligence data.
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