The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine lifted all restrictions on the opening of return fire in the JFO zone in the Donbas
Ukrainian servicemen in the conflict zone in Donbass are allowed to return fire at the enemy without the consent of the high command. New directive for use weapons in the zone, the Joint Forces Operations (JF) was signed by the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny.
Thus, according to the new special directive, the commanders of units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are allowed to use all available weapons without the consent of the higher leadership. Now they will only be guided by the emerging situation.
The commanders are allowed to use all available weapons (...) Zaluzhny saved the military from the need to fill out unnecessary documentation
- write the Ukrainian media.
Earlier, the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said that the Ukrainian servicemen in the Donbas have no restrictions on the opening of return fire. At the same time, he stressed that the decision on this is made on the spot and there is no need to coordinate it with the higher command.
Meanwhile, the situation on the contact line in Donbass remains tense, the parties accused each other of violating the ceasefire. According to reports, two servicemen of the NM LPR died from the fire of Ukrainian snipers.
In Kiev, in turn, they accused the "Russian-occupation troops" (as the militia of the people's republics are called in Ukraine) of seven shelling, which led to the death of two servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
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