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The names of the servicemen who died in the Donbass today have become known. One of the victims – platoon commander

23-year-old Steblyanko died at about 9.30 am, he was blown up by an unknown explosive device.



Shpak, 37, died at about 10.55 am during the shelling of Ukrainian positions by militants, he received an incompatible shrapnel wound. The soldier was from Chernigov, since 2018 he began to fight in the Donbass. As noted “Newsroom”, he was the platoon leader of the 58th motorized infantry brigade.



As follows from the data of the operational-tactical grouping “Vostok”, Steblyanko died near Stepnoe Donetsk region, Shpak – near Novoselsky Donetsk region.

Context:

  • In 2014, immediately after the annexation of Crimea, Russia launched an armed aggression in eastern Ukraine. The fighting is between the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the one hand and the Russian army and Russian-backed militants who control parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions on the other. Officially, the Russian Federation does not recognize its invasion of Ukraine, despite the facts and evidence presented by Ukraine.
  • July 22, 2020 Trilateral Contact Group agreed on a full and comprehensive ceasefire in Donbass since midnight on July 27. Ukrainian side regularly reports violations by the fighters of the ceasefire regime.
  • Recently, the situation in Donbass has worsened. In particular, on March 26, 2021, in the area of ​​the village of Shumy, Donetsk region, illegal armed groups of Russia opened fire on Ukrainian positions. Four soldiers were killed, including a lieutenant colonel Sergey Koval, two more were injured.
  • On March 30, at an extraordinary meeting of the Verkhovna Rada, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Ruslan Khomchak clarified that the Ukrainian military had died near Shumy by sniper fire… The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine noted that Russia builds up military presence near the border with Ukraine in the south, east and north: in the Bryansk, Voronezh regions, as well as in the occupied Crimea.
  • On April 1, the President’s Office reported that from the beginning of 2021 the Russian occupation troops in the Donbas violated the ceasefire more than 570 times… On the same day, Ukrainian intelligence reported that Russia is ready to escalate the situation in Donbass… They also did not rule out an attempt to move the occupiers deep into Ukraine.
  • The Ukrainian delegation to the trilateral contact group reported on the afternoon of April 6 that in the last week alone (from March 30), three Ukrainian soldiers were killed in the Donbas, four were injured and injured. Kiev initiates an extraordinary meeting of the TCG due to escalation.

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