Russia-controlled armed militants continue to use weapons against Ukrainian defenders. Particularly active enemy violates the agreement on a ceasefire in the dark.

Over the past day on Thursday, November 16, militants in the area of ??the antiterrorist operation opened fire 22 times on our positions. As a result of the fighting, not one Ukrainian defender suffered.

As reported URA-Inform, referring to the press center of the headquarters of the ATU, in the Luhansk direction yesterday the main battles were fought on the Svetlodar arc. With small interruptions, for about three hours, the militants fired our defenses from 82-mm mortars, grenade launchers, machine guns and weapons of the BMP on the outskirts of Lugansk. A total of more than 90 min. Also in the evening, under fire from 82-mm mortars, grenade launchers and heavy machine guns, Makarov's defenders. The enemy of Ukrainian soldiers provoked with small arms and in the Crimean area.

On the Donetsk route the most restless was on the Azov Sea. The enemy used artillery caliber 152 mm near Vodyanoy. With the 120-mm mortar he beat the defenders of Pavlopol and Shirokino. Ukrainian positions in the suburbs of Avdeevka were fired at by grenade launchers, heavy machine guns and small arms. Under the grenade launcher, the support posts of the ATU forces at Novotroitskii were hit, and at the end of the day illegal armed formations fired from the large-caliber machine guns of the defenders of Staroggnatovka.

Recall that for the past day, Wednesday, November 15, militants have violated the truce 16 times. Servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were forced 11 times to open an adequate return fire. As a result of enemy attacks, not one of our defenders suffered.