Militants of illegal armed formations have committed 34 shelling of positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of ??the Antiterrorist operation for the last knock, the press center of the headquarters of the ATU.

"In total for the past day illegal armed formations opened fire on positions of the Ukrainian army 34 times. Of these, 20 shellings are characterized as being non-targeted. There is no loss among our military, "- said in a message on the staff page on Facebook on Thursday morning.

In the seaside direction after 18. 00 militants fired Ukrainian positions five times on the approaches to Vodyanskoy from large-caliber machine guns, grenade cup discharges and small arms.

Under fire from the same weapons were the Ukrainian strong points at Gnutovo, Bogdanovka and Talakivka.

In the Donetsk direction in the evening the militants continued provocative shelling of the APU fortifications in the vicinity of Zaitsevo. Also at the end of the day they were twice beaten with grenade launchers and small arms in the Avdeevskaya industrial zone.

In Lugansk direction about 19. 00 IAF released 3 mines of 82-mm caliber near Raspberry.