During the last day the number of militants' attacks on the positions of ATO forces greatly increased. Separatists fired 91 times from the tank weapons, mortars of various calibers, machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades and small arms, - reported the press center of the ATO headquarters.
In particular, fire strikes from weapons of caliber 82 and 120 mm were made by enemy 11 times on Avdiivka simultaneously from the three directions, namely from Mineralne, Yasynovata and Yakovlevka.
Earlier Militants opened fire 35 times on the positions of ATO forces
It should be noted that more than half of the cases of violation of the regime of silence militants have been committed in the period from 17 to 24 hours, when there were no OSCE observers near the demarcation line.
During this period Ukrainian military opened fire in response 17 times.