The enemy traditionally stepped up in the dark. Most of the shelling was seen in the Lugansk direction. Thus, the pro-Russian mercenaries fired on the villages of Novoaleksandrovka and Boguslavsky from grenade cup discharges of various types and small arms and grenade launchers.

At the approaches of Zaitsev and Lugansk, the militants were fired from the infantry fighting vehicle, at about midnight a response was given to an attempt of the reconnaissance squad to penetrate territory controlled by Ukraine. From the mortars and machine guns of various calibers fired Sands, near the checkpoint Glorious Ukrainian fighters were forced to open a return fire.

As a result of the shelling, no one died, one Ukrainian military man was injured, he was hospitalized.

As reported in the "Ur-Inform", previously it became known the exact number of Russian fighters in the Donbass.