For the past day, Tuesday, June 6, the enemy opened fire 85 times on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. As reported URA-Inform, referring to the press center of the headquarters of the ATU, as a result of the fighting yesterday, eight of our fighters were injured.
Thus, on Tuesday, in the coastal area, the militants used 25 weapons against the Ukrainian military.
Most of the fire was opened near the village of Chermalyk. Here the enemy shelled the positions of the ATO forces from mortars of the caliber of 120 mm and once from the rocket launcher systems. Also, the enemy beat on Vodian, Shirokino, Gnutovo, Taramchuk, Pavlopol, Novotroitsky and Marinka.
On the Donetsk direction, 28 shellings were recorded on the APU strong points. Here the enemy was hitting in the region of Avdeevka, Kamenka, Verkhnetoretsky, Novgorod, Zaitsevo, Novolugansk and Troitsky. The enemy actively used small arms, grenade launchers of various modifications, mortars of 82-mm caliber, less often - caliber 120 mm. On Tuesday evening, the militants carried out two powerful shelling of the positions of the ATU forces, which are located near Troitsky, with 122mm gun barrels, 120mm mortars, tank guns and less powerful weapons.
In the Lugansk direction, the most frequently fired from 32 times. The use of heavy artillery weapons. In particular, in the region of the Crimean and Novotoshkovsky militants carried out several powerful shelling of 120-mm mortars and powerful artillery systems of caliber 122 and 152 mm. Under the mortar shells, also the soldiers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, who keep the defense near Novoaleksandrovka, the Threefoot, the Troitsky Pop, Katerynovka and Novozvanovka. Using light weapons, the militants resorted to provocations near Donets station and Stanitsa Luganskaya.
Recall, yesterday, militants shelled the houses of one of the front-line settlements on the Svetlodar arc. After six o'clock in the evening the enemy struck fire at the residential sector of the village of Novoluganskoye from the anti-aircraft unit ZU-23-2. As a result of the shelling, a wooden homestead in the yard along Kosmonavtov Street.