Militants in the ATU zone in the east of Ukraine from midnight as of 18:00 Thursday 16 times opened fire on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the situation remains stable, the ATU headquarters.

"Since the beginning of today's day, the situation in the area of ??conducting ATO has remained stable without a tendency to exacerbate. As in the previous few days, the Russian-occupation groups continue provocative shelling to demonstrate the presence of their own fire weapons, "the ATU headquarters press center said on its Facebook page on Thursday evening.

It is noted that the most uneasy after midnight was in the Donetsk direction, where militants from small arms opened fire four times on the Ukrainian positions at Butovka mine. Also under the enemy shelling on Thursday, three outlying areas. Zaitsevo and Avdeevskaya industrial zone.

In the Mariupol direction during the night, illegal armed formations fired non-pointily from the tank and weapons of the BMU the support points of the APU on the approaches to Marinka.

On the Luhansk direction near the Crimean recorded cases of the use of militants grenade launchers and large-caliber machine guns.

"In total, since midnight illegal armed groups opened fire on our positions 16 times," the report says..

Also at the headquarters of the ATO note that over the past day pyrotechnic units have been surveyed more than 7 hectares of the territory, with which about 140 explosive items were removed and rendered harmless.