The war in Novorossia Online 03.16.2015 Chronicle

By 8:30 of March 13 calm remained in Donetsk. On March 14 the situation in the DPR capital was also calm. The number of unmanned aerial vehicles increased dramatically in the skies over Donetsk in recent days. Ukrainian military conduct reconnaissance on the territory of Novorossia with their help. On March 15 relative calm was maintained in Donetsk. In the night of March 13 to 14 Ukrainian military fired at Donetsk airport and the village of Spartak with propelled gun mounts and small arms. No one was injured. On March 14 employees of the monitoring mission of the OSCE recorded 46 explosions near Donetsk airport. The shelling was conducted from the village Peski. On March 14 skirmishes continued with the use of mortars and small arms in the area of Donetsk airport during the day. In the evening of March 15 battles did not abate in the vicinity of the airport. In the night of March 14 to 15, the most intense fire was recorded in the locality Vesyoloye, located near the Donetsk airport, AFU also fired at the territory of the very airport. Ukrainian security forces used automatic small arms, mortars and automatic mounted grenade launchers. There were no casualties among the militias in shelling. During the night of March 13 there were local fights in the area of ​​Peski that continued until the end of the day. Battles were fought with small arms and automatic grenade launchers. According to the Ukrainian side, one soldier was killed during the fighting in Peski. On March 14 militia positions were fired near Yasinovataya. Explosions were heard in Makeyevka, in the area of ​​the mine "Kapitalnaya" from Krynka on March 13, and the glow of a fire was seen. According to the Ukrainian side, artillery positions of forces of the so-called ATO in Avdeyevka were allegedly fired in the evening of March 13. On March 13 and 14 AFU continued to bombard Donbass people's militia positions in the area of ​​ Gorlovka. Security officials fired with artillery, heavy infantry guns and tanks. AFU also move up the military equipment and manpower to their positions in Dzerzhinsk. On March 15 at 11:00 security forces conducted artillery fire in the direction of Gorlovka from Konstantinovka. AFU also fired at militia positions in Gorlovka from Magdalinovka. Alarm was declared in Gorlovka militia detachments. There was permanent shootout in the vicinity of Debaltsevo at the time of liquidation of small subversive groups of the enemy. On March 13 outskirts of Dokuchayevsk were fired with mortars from Volnovakha direction. In response, the positions of Ukrainian security forces in the area of Novotroitskoye were fired, where there is a large concentration of the National Guard and equipment. By 16:45 of March 13 the fight went on near the settlement Granitnoye with the use of mortars for over an hour. In the morning of March 13 fire was allegedly opened on the positions of the so-called forces of ATO near the settlement Shirokino with small arms at 3:35, fire resumed at 7:45. On March 13 attacks were recorded in the village every two hours. Ukrainian units moved to a small river Shirokaya. On March 13 flights of UAVs both of militia and the Ukrainian army were observed over Shirokino. In general, 7 cases of shelling of positions of the so-called ATO forces with small arms, grenades and mortars were recorded in Shirokino on March 13. Two soldiers of the regiment "Azov" were injured in the fighting on March 13. During the night of March 14 no counter-fighting took place in Shirokino, but there were firings of militia positions with SPGs and small arms. On March 14 Ukrainian military continued shelling the village Shirokino with heavy 120-mm mortars. The militiamen were forced to return fire. A fighter "Azov" of regiment was wounded as a result of the fighting on March 14. At 6:15 of March 15 confrontation in Shirokino resumed. According to the press center of the so-called ATO, militiamen opened fire on positions of security forces at the settlement early in the morning of March 15. On March 13 Ukrainian law enforcers moved to coordinated bomb attacks against the People's Republic of Donetsk from the chaotic ceasefire violations. AFU are conducting precise fire coordinated by targets, time and place on militia positions and settlements using heavy 120 mm, 122 mm and 152 mm caliber systems, which, as assured by Kiev, have already been withdrawn from the contact line beyond the 50-kilometer security zone. They also use tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, anti-aircraft guns, automatic grenade launchers and small arms. Situation in LPR is heating up every day. Reconnaissance flights of unmanned aerial vehicles, both of militias and AFU, intensified in the skies over the republic. At the direction of Stanitsa Luganskaya militia positions in the settlements Bolotennoye, Sizoye, Nikolayevka, Vesyolenkoye, Valuiskoye and Pankovka were fired 20 times on March 13. Forces of AFN and AFU were engaged in a rifle battle there. During March 14, according to the Ukrainian side, the positions of the AFU were fired twice with small arms from the direction of Vesyolaya Gora, three firings were conducted from the area of the settlement Smeloye, and one - from the direction of Krasny Liman. In Lugansk sounds of explosions and gunfire were heard from the eastern margin about 9:15 of March 13.