July 11, 2014 in the vicinity of the settlement Zelenopolye Russian militants from the MLRS "Grad" fired on the Ukrainian military.

Under the fire fell fighters from the 79th airmobile brigade, 24 and 72 separate mechanized brigade. 39 military men were killed, 93 were wounded.

Because of the threat of complete blockade of the border by Ukrainian forces, Russian regular troops inflicted a missile strike on their Ukrainian defenders from their territory.

The village of Zelenopolye is located a few kilometers from the Russian-Ukrainian border.

After the first missile attack, the whole line from the Luhansk region to the coast of the Azov Sea, during July-August 2014 was under systematic artillery shelling from the territory of the Russian Federation.

"On July 10, about 20. 00 our RTGR received an order to withdraw from the positions near Izvarino and move to Zelenopolye, to meet with the main forces 1 btgr 79, which moved from the Slavyansk and Kramatorsk areas. It was moving "Mike" with his Spartans. The guys were prepared morally tested, and they went to the next task, to help our group.

in the morning our 2 rtgr was supposed to meet with the troops of "Mike" in Zelenopolye and go on the breakthrough of Krasnodon ", - wrote Evgeny Zhukov in Facebook.

According to him, this was not a battle near Zelenopolye, but a pre-prepared, large-scale and successful shelling.

"In other words, a knife in the back, cowardly and treacherously, knowing which we will not answer, broke a bunch of guys. Many burned down techniques. Psychological disorders in most. It was hell! ", - added Zhukov.