Militants shelled Ukrainian positions 36 times over the past 24 hours in Donbas, 18 attacks were aimed. There were no losses among Ukrainian soldiers, reports the press center of Ukraine’s Army headquarters in Facebook.
"At the end of the last day Russian-occupation groups intensified their armed provocations. The enemy mainly used small arms and grenade launchers," the headquarters said.
As in the previous days, the main tension was in Donetsk area. Here, the militants opened fire four times in the vicinity of Zaitseve from small arms and heavy machine guns, and twice - near Posky. And the enemy used grenade launchers in the Avdiivka industrial zone, near Kamianka and Butivka mine.
It was also tense and in Mariupol area. Illegal armed formations continued to shell in the vicinity of Vodyane after 18:00. Also Ukrainian positions were under grenade launcher fire win the outskirts of Lebedynske, Shyrokyne and Mariinka. The bandits shelled Talakivka thrice from large-caliber machine guns.
In Luhansk direction, the enemy opened fire from various weapons in Krymske region, Stanysia Luhanska and Malynove.