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Chronicle: Sources
TASS Chronicle-link to daily updates, (Russian),  TASS  - Ukraine (English) (easiest to search).

Rusvesna-news (Russian),   rusvesna (English). ---  Opolchenie version of events.

TSN (Ukraine) (Ukrainian or Russian). Ukrainian version of events.

February,2015
02.02.2015.opolchenie map (also File:MapDragon010215.jpg ) (1): Ukrainian Tochka U downed.

01.02.15 opolchenie map. (1): Nikishino  taken by NAF ;  (9): Uglegorsk fully controlled by NAF.

Mobilization planned by Novorossia in some 10 days, up to 100 thousand may be called for duty (Cassad)
 * Strelkov applied to be mobilized based on wife's Donetsk residency, listing military skills.

Opolchenie repeats that they are ready for a ceasefire, based on the actual front line. Ukraine insists on the line from 19 September memorandum. (That line was never implemented-Airport has to go to Novorossia, for example, and shelling of cities did not stop.)

Military Casualties
02.02.15 UAF losses estimated at 130 killed.

Civilian Casualties
02.02.15 16 killed, 34 wounded in DPR and LPR combined. Civilian areas hit by MLRS, Makeevka and Donetsk, (13), (14) on opolchenie map, 02.02.2015

Military Hardware Lost
02-03.02.15 UAF lost 5 tanks, 1 BMP, 11 artillery pieces, one plane (or possibly one Tochka U)

Banned Weapons Use
02.02. Report on phosphorous ammunition used against civilians by Ukraine.

Abbreviations Used
MLRS: Multiple Launch Rocket System, Grad/Uragan/Smerch