At least thirty Ukrainian soldiers killed in rebel missile attack

Reuters: 11. july 2014

Today, in early morning hours, Pro Russian troops fired with their multiple rocket launchers "Grad" on encamped Ukrainian military convoy near Zelenopole, Lugansk region, There is large number of victims.

A separatist rebel attack with "Grad" missiles in eastern Ukraine may have killed as many as 30 soldiers and border guards on Friday and final casualties may be even higher, said Zoryan Shkyryak, an adviser to Interior Minister Arseny Avakov.


First pictures from the site, Zelenopole, Luhansk region, July 11 2014.

"Up to thirty (were killed). It is not excluded that the number of victims will rise because these blood-thirsty scum despicably shot from Grad (missile) systems and there is destruction," he said speaking at a news conference.

Ukraine@war: 11. july 2014

Drama near Zelenopole: entire Ukrainian convoy destroyed?

Reports are out that a Ukrainian convoy or camp near Zelenopole has been attacked by "GRAD"s (missile systems) at 5:00 am in the morning and was completely destroyed.

InfoResist writes about it here. A certain Vladimir Parasyuk writes on his facebook page that there are 30 killed and 100 wounded:

"Just reported very bad news. Today at 5:00 am in s.Zelenopole, Lugansk region. Russian militants from the installation "Grad" fired our guys with 24 motorized brigade (Yavorovschina, Lviv region). A large number of wounded and killed. No connection, all burned. Reinforcements coming. About this horror I was informed by my brother, who is now there. According to unofficial data, the number of our guys killed 30 and wounded more than 100."Immediately Russian news site Lenta.ru published a report where Strelkov confirmed this. "They were all trashed."

This source says it was 24th and 79th brigade. And it says adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs Zorian Shkiryak confirms that at least 25 have been killed.

This is a Ukrainian agency reporting about it and ATO confirms what happened, but cannot say anything about the number of casualies. Parasyuk is called 'an activist'.

(EMPR reported that 2 convoys consisted of 20 vehicles (5 T-72 tanks, several APCs,and trucks) have entered Lugansk region from Russia last night)