In the area of the Joint Forces Operation on January 28, the armed formations of the Russian Federation violated the ceasefire 9 times, - the JFO headquarters reported. The enemy fired at our positions from 120 mm and 82 mm mortars prohibited by the Minsk agreements, as well as from grenade launchers of various systems, heavy machine guns and other small arms. Two members of the Joint Forces were injured as a result of blowing up on an undetermined explosive device.
The so-called "Ministry of State Security of the LNR" detained a mother of eight children, accusing her of "espionage" in favor of Ukraine and "treason" The "Ministry of State Security" noted that resident of the Stanytsia-Luhanska district Maryna Nedodayeva, allegedly, "was engaged in the collection of information on military personnel of the local "people's militia" on the territory of the "republic" on the instructions of the SBU. Furthermore, the mother with many children is accused of conducting "communications work" among the "LNR" military personnel" in order to gain them over to the side of the enemy by using the SBU program "You are being waited at home". According to the version of the "Ministry of State Security", her eldest daughter Iryna Shchetynina was involved "in cooperation with the Ukrainian special services" with her mother. The punitive agency did not report on her fate.
Volunteers from Marinka sent a patriotic package to the occupied Donetsk with the help of balloons, - Espreso.TV reported. The package contains postcards, calendars and information posters. This way, the volunteers remind residents of the occupied territories that Ukraine has not forgotten about them. "The main goal is to support our patriots who live in the occupation", - volunteer Vlad Boroda said. Money for printing the leaflets is transferred by IDPs, military and patriots from CADLO. There are about 2500 postcards and calendars with children's drawings in one box.
2.4 thousand subscribers were left without water supply in occupied Lutuhyne and Heorhiivka due to a leak in the water supply system, - the so-called "Ministry of Emergency Situations of the LNR" reported. "As a result of a leak in water conduit with a diameter of 315 mm, water supply was partially cut off in the settlements of Lutuhyne (six streets) and Heorhiivka (four streets), a total of 2400 subscribers", - the report said.
Ukrainian border guards detained several citizens whom boaters illegally transported from the temporarily occupied Luhansk region again, - the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine reported. So, the law enforcement officers stopped four citizens of Ukraine on the outskirts of the village of Trokhizbenka. As in previous cases, three men and one woman crossed the line of demarcation in a boat along the Siverskyi Donets River. According to two stopped men, residents of a controlled part of the Donetsk oblast, they allegedly visited relatives in the uncontrolled part of Luhansk region. But the man and the woman, residents of uncontrolled Holubivka, held a course for Sievierodonetsk outside the established checkpoints of entry and exit to receive social benefits. As the citizens admitted, illegal crossing the demarcation line cost them $4 each as a fee for the boaters.