{"id":33319,"date":"2015-04-16T14:50:01","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T14:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uacrisis.org\/?p=22838"},"modified":"2015-04-16T20:40:28","modified_gmt":"2015-04-16T18:40:28","slug":"22838-andrij-lisenko-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/en\/22838-andrij-lisenko-18","title":{"rendered":"Andriy Lysenko: OSCE monitors confirm active military drills pro-Russian militants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=p3X5Pez7ibE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH IN ENGLISH<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kyiv, April 16, 2015. <\/strong>OSCE monitors have observed military exercises of \u201cLPR\u201d insurgents in the militant-held Uspenka village, Luhansk region, involving 10 tanks, 30 APCs and military trucks. The mission also reported that four 152-mm towed howitzers have disappeared from the concentration site where militants have previously stored their heavy weapons, as well as observed two T-72 tanks near Hirne village, reported Colonel Andriy Lysenko, ATO spokesperson, at the press briefing at Ukraine Crisis Media Center. He emphasized such military drills is a bright example that demonstrates militants\u2019 hostile intentions and are readiness for further combat actions.<\/p>\n<p>Col. Lysenko noted of a certain stabilization of the situation in eastern Ukraine over the last day. \u201cRussia-backed militants fired from 120-mm mortars nine times, twice from 122-mm grenades and two more times from tanks,\u201d he said. Shyrokyne, areas around the Donetsk airport and Mayorsk and Kirove close to Horlivka, and Donetske town near Bakhmutska \u2013 in the Mariupol, Donetsk and Luhansk sectors respectively \u2013\u00a0were the hotspots of the conflict yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian Armed Forces did not incur any lethal casualties in the last 24 hours; six servicemen got wounded.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian intelligence reports that \u201cLPR\u201d instruct Luhansk schools directors to force their students to continue their studies on militant-held territories and not pass Ukrainian national tests in order to be admitted to the Ukrainian universities. Those certificates issued by militant-controlled universities are not recognized by any country in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian counterintelligence and the State Service for Financial Monitoring froze $550,000 and 1,240 million hryvnias on bank accounts of one of \u201cLPR\u201d members \u2013\u00a0a self-declared \u201cMinister for construction, housing and utilities of LPR\u201d \u2013\u00a0who was saving his money in one of Ukrainian banks.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"mace-gallery-teaser\"\n\tid=\"mace-gallery-33319-1\"\n\tdata-g1-gallery-title=\"\"\n\tdata-g1-gallery=\"[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:33321,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;16-04_eng&quot;,&quot;thumbnail&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/uacrisis.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/04\\\/16-04_eng1-150x150.jpg&quot;,&quot;3-2-thumbnail&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/uacrisis.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/04\\\/16-04_eng1.jpg&quot;,&quot;full&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/uacrisis.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/04\\\/16-04_eng1.jpg&quot;}]\"\n\tdata-g1-share-shortlink=\"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/en\/22838-andrij-lisenko-18#mace-gallery-33319-1\"\n\t>\n\t<a class=\"mace-gallery-teaser-poster\">\n\t\t<img width=\"492\" height=\"409\" src=\"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/16-04_eng1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-bimber-grid-standard-2x size-bimber-grid-standard-2x\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/16-04_eng1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/16-04_eng1-300x249.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/16-04_eng1-768x638.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/>\t\t<span class=\"mace-gallery-teaser-button\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"g1-epsilon g1-epsilon-1st mace-gallery-teaser-button-text\">View Gallery<\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"g1-meta mace-gallery-teaser-button-counter\">\n\t\t\t\t1 image\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/span>\n\t<\/a>\n<\/figure>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WATCH IN ENGLISH Kyiv, April 16, 2015. 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