Pavlo P. Dmytrenko

According to the State Border Guard Service, on July 27, 2014, from 10:00 to 13:05 and from 13:30 to 14:45, a mortar and howitzer shelling of the "Dovzhansky" checkpoint in the Luhansk region was carried out. The fire was directed from the territory of Russia, with over 250 shells fired. As a result of the shelling, 4 border guards were killed and 2 were injured. One of the border guards who was lucky to survive told a RIA journalist the details of the shelling: "At first, they fired from 'Grad' systems. Then shells flew in that travel completely silently. We saw something like this for the first time. They mixed everything with the ground. There were craters everywhere, the size of a person. Nothing was left of the checkpoint. I don't know what else they used, but we noticed that when a certain substance hit the boots, the shoes fell apart immediately. The paint also peels off the cars." According to the military, the wounded and the bodies of the dead were taken to the territory of Russia.