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Little has changed since the previous day.
The NAF is now fully in charge of Kamyenka.
Very heavy fighting is ongoing in Debaltsevo, Chornukhyno and Popasnaya with infantry and artillery.
The NAF is massing a huge force to launch a major operation to take Debaltsevo. 5-6,000 Ukies are trapped in the Debaltsevo pocket. NAF actions to the north around Troitskoe and Krasny Pahar are designed to prevent relief to the Debaltsevo garrison. Two Ukie battalions sent junior officers to NAF to negotiate the terms of the surrender of Debaltsevo. The NAF rejected the gesture and said they wanted to talk to senior officers instead. Poroshenko is calling loudly for a ceasefire in Debaltsevo “for the civilians.” Really he needs it to rearm.
Warning: Ukies planning one more false flag attack in a war in which they have done many such attacks. A captured soldier said the Ukies were planning to shell a bus full of Debaltsevo refugees and blame it on the NAF.
There are conflicting reports about whether the Debaltsevo-Artemivsk road has been blocked by the NAF. At any rate, there are Ukie military vehicles all over the place up and down this road.
There was a huge battle for Uglegorsk again yesterday as Ukies moved forces back into the city from where they were driven earlier. The NAF has now driven all Ukies out of the city again. However, the city was first leveled by Ukie artillery. The NAF then evacuated the civilians as the Ukies would not let them leave via their zone. Then the huge battle took place. Today Uglegorsk is littered with destroyed and burnt out military vehicles. It is not know which side they are from, possibly both. The truth is the the city is 99% controlled by the NAF, but there are a few Ukie snipers left. Apparently the main NAF tank force may be stuck in Uglegorsk and unable to advance on Debaltsevo at the moment.
Ukie terror bombing of Gorlovka and Donetsk continued. A hit on a Donetsk hospital killed 15 people. Where are the OSCE scum, the Western leaders and the Human Rights Watch scum? Nowhere to be seen.
There are reports of white phosphorus being used in the Ukie shelling of Donetsk coming from pro-NAF sources. However, these may well be 9M22S incendiary GRAD rockets, a Soviet-era weapon, instead. Not everything coming out of the pro-NAF side should be believed either.
A major Ukie push to break through at Elenovka has failed, and the Ukies are now moving their artillery north towards Donetsk.
