DPR forces down three Ukrainian UAVs over week - Basurin

Donetsk, Feb 22 - DAN. DPR armed forces shot down three Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles over the past week, DPR Operations Command deputy commander Eduard Basurin said on Thursday.

“Over the past week, our servicemen downed three UAVs belonging to 36th separate marines brigade and 46th separate battalion “Donbass,” Basurin said.

DPR militia found fragments of two UAVs; the third fell in the so-called “grey zone.”

Earlier reports said Ukrainian forces fired more than 160 rounds of ammunition at DPR territory over the past 24 hours.

Employing combat aviation and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) in 30km-wide zone along the line of contact is banned under Article 7 of Minsk Memorandum dated 19 September 2014, with the exception to OSCE SMM UAVs. *jk