Ukraine
In compliance with a decree of the President of Ukraine to renew the active phase of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO), the personnel and units of the ATO forces began to actively disarm and destroy terrorist group in the operational zone. Ukraine's Armed Forces engaged in heavy air and artillery bombardment on strongholds, checkpoints, arms caches and clusters of terrorists, NSC Secretary Andriy Parubiy reported today at the 12:00 briefing.
The Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) continues in the east of the country. Effective efforts on the part of Ukraine military have led to a lower rate of assaults from the terrorist side. At the same time, more and more militants are raising the white flag to get closer to checkpoints and open fire against the soldiers manning those posts.
During the day on July 2, Ukrainian armed forces continued to carry out their battle objectives under the operation to block and destroy terrorists. Andriy Lysenko, spokesperson for the NSC News & Analysis Center, reported the details at the daily NSC briefing.
July 1, 2014, Kyiv. At 09:30, the Reanimation Package of Reforms group (RPR), men of the Central Committee of Maidan Hundreds (Sotnia or Company), Kozaks of the Ukrainian Kozak Army, activists from the Maidan Coordination Committee, and other Maidan activists began an ongoing “preventive campaign.” with the purpose of addressing the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s legislature, MaidanPressCenter reports.
MaidanPressCenter reports that peacefull rally at the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine today resulted clashes.
Dmitriy Tymchuk reports that over the past few hoursa series of Attacks on Ukrainian ATO Forces were fulfilled by terrorists in the conflict zone in eastern Ukraine.