In the afternoon of February 19 and on the night of February 20, the Ukrainian army continued its attacks in the direction of Donetsk and Luhansk.
The artillery cannonade does not calm down. Around 1 a.m. on February 20, the southwest of Donetsk was subjected to heavy artillery fire. As a result of the shelling, another section of the gas pipeline on the outskirts of the city in the village of Ivanovka, the Kievsky district, that located on the bypass road that connects Peace Avenue and Kievsky Avenue, was hit. In the city center, Kirovsky district, Petrovsky district, near Donetsk airport, Makeyevka, Gvardeika, strong cannonade was also heard. After a short lull by 2 a.m., the shelling of Staromikhailovka village with heavy weapons resumed. There are numerous video and photo footage from the ground.
The situation is similar in Luhansk. Shots can be heard on the outskirts of the city and in the center.
Self-defense forces’ armored vehicles are moving in the streets of Donetsk. Ukrainian sabotage groups are operating in the city. At this moment there is fighting on Stratonavtov Street.
Earlier, on February 19, a Ukrainian saboteur who participated in the February 18 blowing up of the car of the head of the DNR People’s Militia in the city center was detained. He gave extensive testimony denouncing Kiev’s terrorist activities.
Footage was also published of the discovery and neutralization of a car filled with 200 kilograms of TNT equivalent explosives, which the Ukrainian saboteurs had planned to blow up under a bridge while a convoy of buses with women and children being evacuated to Russia was passing through.
According to Ukrainian President Zelensky, it is the residents of Donbass who are responsible for all of these actions, and the Ukrainian army has nothing to do with it.
Meanwhile, the saturation of Ukraine with NATO weapons continues. Another C-130 aircraft filled with “military aid” to Ukraine from Canada. Rifles, assault rifles with telescopic sights, night-vision and surveillance equipment were unloaded at the airport in Kyiv (Boryspil) a few hours ago.
In the Rostov region of Russia, a state of emergency has been declared on Feb. 19, and in the Voronezh and Volgograd regions of Russia, a state of high alert have been also declared.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, who is leaving his post this year, said that all signs “indicate that Moscow is ready for a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. He is probably right about the current situation. Russia is not left with a chance to stand aside. It is surprising that Moscow is still trying to bring Kiev to its senses through diplomatic efforts.
At the same time, since the night of February 19, the armed units of the unrecognized republics began to actively respond to Kiev’s aggression. As a result of the counter-artillery fight, several firing positions of the Ukrainian army were destroyed and about 10 servicemen of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were killed and wounded.
Residents of areas in Donbass that are under Kiev’s control publicly accuse the Ukrainian military of being the ones destroying their homes, not “Putin. Ukrainian journalists film all of this while the military walks by dejectedly.
For its part, the Russian Federation continues to return previously withdrawn units to the areas bordering Ukraine. There is video evidence of the movement of heavy artillery and tactical missile systems. Front-line aviation is concentrating on airfields for hopping.
A full-scale war would be catastrophic for the entire region, including Western European countries and, of course, Russia. Amid of the ongoing events, it is the leadership of the core European states that must make a difficult decision whether to stop the aggression of Ukraine, namely to go against the intentions of the Washington elites and their satellites to wage war at any cost or follow meekly to the slaughter. Unfortunately, being watched the actions of, for example, the German leadership; it is hard to believe in the first.
