As a result of shelling, two Ukrainian soldiers died. Another five soldiers were slightly injured and one was injured. According to URA-Inform, referring to the data of the press center of the headquarters of the ATU, in more than half of the cases the Ukrainian servicemen suppressed the fire activity of the invaders.

At the same time, the situation in the area of ??carrying out ATU in the evening has stabilized, but remained unsettled. The militants continued to use prohibited mortars in various sectors of the contact line.

So, in the Lugansk direction, after dark, the enemy from 120-mm mortar shells fired at the defensive fortifications of the ATU forces on the approaches to Travnevoy, and from the small arms they fired at Luganskaya Stanitsa.

On the Donetsk route, from the mortars of the 82nd caliber and grenade launchers, the militants fired at the positions of the APU in the Novotroitsky, Lebedinsky and Butovka mines. From the arms of the infantry fighting vehicles and machine guns fired on the outskirts of Gnutovo, and from light infantry weapons - Verkhnetoretskoe and Staragontovka.

Recall, the rebels on Tuesday, December 19, shelled the defensive fortifications of Ukrainian military around the village Zaitsevo Donetsk region. In general, the enemy fired from the multiple rocket launcher BM-21 "Grad".