Militants violated the armistice 28 times. As a result of the fighting, three Ukrainian soldiers died. Another eight people were injured, one - a military trauma.
As reported URA-Inform, with reference to the press service of the headquarters of the ATU, at the end of the last day in the area of ??the ATO marked the next escalation of the confrontation. After six o'clock in the evening the Russian occupation forces intensified shelling, using prohibited weapons.
Thus, in the Primorsky direction, as a result of the mortar shelling of Ukrainian fortifications near Shirokino, one military. And as a result of the enemy provocation with the use of grenade launchers and small arms near Vodyaniy, one Ukrainian defender was killed. Also, at the end of the day, the Ukrainian positions in the area of ??Talakovka and Krasnogorovka fell under the mortar fire of the militants. And from the BMP armament the militants twice beat the Ukrainian defenders in Chermalyk.
On the Lugansk direction, nearby Novotoshkovskiy, militants fired from large-caliber millimeters, and near the Golden, Troitsky and Novozvanovka fires were fired from infantry fighting vehicles, heavy machine guns and small arms. As a result of one such bombardment near Novoaleksandrovka, another Ukrainian soldier was wounded.
In the Donetsk direction, the tense situation continues to exist in the vicinity of Avdeevka and the Butovka mine. Here in the evening the militants actively used mortars of various calibers, grenade launchers, machine guns and small arms.
Almost for each shelling by illegal armed formations our fighters opened a tight fire to defeat. Now the enemy's losses are being clarified, "the headquarters.
Recall, on Tuesday in the area of ??the anti-terrorist operation, two Ukrainian soldiers were killed. Another five people were injured. The incident occurred about six o'clock in the evening near Maryinka.