It is noted that the delegation included the newly appointed attaché of the ground forces, Colonel Brandon Presley, attaché of the ground forces, Colonel Paul Schmidt and the assistant attaché of the ground forces, Captain James Tippets.
“The US representatives visited the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which directly carry out tasks on the line of contact with the enemy, assessed the situation at the front and made sure of the presence of Russian troops in eastern Ukraine,” the message says.
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how reported on Facebook press center of the Joint Forces, on May 6, the Foreign Ministers of the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg visited the Joint Forces operation zone. May 12 fighters of the National Guard in Donbass visited the military attachés of Sweden, Norway and Denmark.
Immediately after the annexation of Crimea in 2014, 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. According to the UN, during the conflict about 13 thousand people died.
July 22, 2020 Trilateral Contact Group agreed on a full and comprehensive ceasefire in Donbass since midnight on July 27. Ukrainian side regularly reports incidents of violation by militants ceasefire regime.
At the beginning of 2021, the situation in Donbass worsened. The JFO headquarters has repeatedly reported that the enemy is conducting sniper fire. On April 1, the Office of the President of Ukraine reported that from the beginning of 2021 the Russian occupation troops in Donbas violated the ceasefire more than 570 times… In 2021, the Ukrainian military already had at least 37 combat losses, said the former commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, General Viktor Muzhenko. BBC News Ukraine in an interview that was posted on May 1st.
Since the announcement of the ceasefire on July 27, 2020 in the zone of the Joint Forces operation in Donbass killed 99 soldiers, reported in the Armed Forces of Ukraine on May 7, 2021.
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