Over the past day, illegal armed groups twice fired civilian settlements. In the Water Region of Donetsk, the militants fired 24 82-mm mortar shells, and in the evening, from the grenade launchers, heavy machine guns and small arms, the economic building in Avdeevka.

As a result of the fighting, one Ukrainian soldier died: during one of the attacks near Avdeyevka. Two more - were injured as a result of the night shelling in the area of ??Majororsk. The wounded soldiers were promptly taken to the military mobile hospital. This was reported by Colonel Andrey Lysenko, the speaker of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine on ATO issues, during a press briefing at the Ukrainian Crisis Media Center..

In the Donetsk direction, the militants carried out the greatest number of bombardments. During the day with 11 bombardments, 9 were aimed. "Three times under enemy fire from grenade cups of various types, heavy machine guns and small arms, the positions of the ATU forces in the area of ??Avdeevka fell, twice - near Nevelsk and Sands. At the same time, according to the positions in Peski, the invaders fired from the BMP, "Colonel Lysenko. With grenade launchers, small arms and large-caliber machine guns, the militants fired on the Ukrainian positions in the area of ??Majororsk, Experimental, Kamenka and Zaitsevoy.

In the Mariupol direction, the militants carried out 4 aimed fire at the positions of the ATU forces from large-caliber machine guns and small arms. Twice - near Pavlopol, as well as in the area of ??Staragnatovka and Shirokino. "The Ukrainian military, using large-caliber machine guns and small arms, each time forced the enemy to cease fire," said Colonel Lysenko.

On the Lugansk direction, the militants targeted the positions of the ATO forces near the Trehbizka. "Ukrainian servicemen did not respond to enemy provocation," the representative of the Ministry of Defense.

In total, during the past day, along the line of contact, the militants made 16 shelling positions of the ATU forces, 14 of them were aimed. "In the overwhelming majority of cases, servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have opened an adequate fire using large-caliber machine guns and small arms," ??he added..