Yesterday, January 11, on the Ukrainian TV channel “1 + 1” there was a story about the shelling of official vehicle and the injury of employees of the utility company “Water of Donbass”. In this report, Ukrainian propagandists show video footage, allegedly recorded by surveillance camera, located at the Donetsk Filtering Station (DFS).

Recall that only video surveillance cameras of the OSCE SMM are installed on the DFS, and only the representatives of the OSCE SMM have access to the data of these cameras.

In fact, this is a video from a surveillance device, most likely a foreign production, which was filmed by servicemen of the 93rd mechanized brigade of AFU (commander – colonel Vladislav Klochkov), currently occupying positions located in the north-east of Avdeevka.

It is noteworthy that on February 22 of last year, when, despite the security guarantees provided by the Ukrainian side in the JCCC, a medical vehicle was deliberately targeted with an anti-tank guided missile near Dokuchaevsk, a video appeared on Internet demonstrating the destruction of a BMP of the DPR Peoples Militia by AFU.

If you carefully watch these two videos, it is easy to understand that they were taken from the same surveillance devices, with the same central squares.

It is worth noting that in February last year AFU position in front of Dokuchaevsk were occupied by the same 93rd mechanized brigade, which is now located near the DFS.

Another fact deserving particular attention is the absence of the most important evidence in both videos:

– in the case of the targeted destruction of the ambulance by a guided anti-tank rocket, the vehicle itself is absent on the video, according to the Ukrainian side, this is allegedly an APC.

– in the case of the attack of the company vehicle of “Water of Donbass” the moment of firing (according to Ukrainian propagandists – explosion) is not visible in the video.

In addition, from this video it is obvious that the AFU positions have a direct view of the shelling of the vehicle of “Water of Donbass”

However, the most devoid of adequacy of the Ukrainian version is the “planned staged action” conducted by the DPR People’s Militia jointly with representatives of the enterprise “Water of Donbass”.

Obviously, if in reality, in the case of an ambulance, there was a “BMP”, and in the case of a service vehicle, “a staged explosion” planned together with employees of the enterprise “Water of Donbass”, then this would certainly be reflected in the video and reproduced throughout Ukrainian media as a fact of direct proof of their versions.

The above facts demonstrate the absolute inconsistency of the versions of the Ukrainian side in both cases.

We would like to remind that it was previously agreed by the parties, as additional measures in the framework of commitments to comply with the truce, to conduct proceedings on violations of the ceasefire in order to apply disciplinary measures to the perpetrators.

In this regard, the DPR representative office in the JCCC and the negotiation process requests the OSCE SMM to make public the video from the video surveillance camera located at the Donetsk Filtering Station (DFS), where the fact of shelling of a company car and employees of the enterprise “Water of Donbass” was recorded, as well as to request from the Ukrainian side the full version of the video shown on the TV channel.

Other information provided by Sprut, seem to confirm the forgery attempt from Ukrainian media

“SPRUT”, the Community of Countering Ukrainian Terrorism, received from a reliable source, a record of a conversation of a journalist from a Ukrainian TV channel with the officers of the 93rd brigade regarding the organization of a television program.

In this telephone conversation there is the joint attempt of the TV channel and the Ukrainian military to conceal the fact of shooting against the civilian vehicle of « Water of Donbass », passing it off as a “Moscow fake” and to shift the responsibility to Donetsk residents.

At the same time, both the journalist and the Ukrainian military cannot hide their gloating over the destruction of the “separatist machine”.

Also characteristic are other statements of the press officer that “the situation is sensitive” and that he can not discuss what actually happened on the phone, only in person and after receiving approvals from the headquarters of the OJF.

Such behavior casts doubt on the version of the Ukrainian command and the media about the non-involvement of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the shelling, because in order to simply tell the truth, long coordination and secrecy would not be necessary.

Source: the DPR representative office in the JCCC

Translation by Donbass Insider

Tags: civilians, DPR, shelling, ukrainian army, war