Russian mercenaries and subordinate militants opened fire on our positions 15 times. As a result of the fighting, one serviceman was killed, four were wounded.

According to URA-Inform, referring to the press center of the ATU headquarters, in cases that were the greatest danger to the personnel, Ukrainian servicemen gave the aggressor adequate fire response.

Thus, in the Lugansk direction, militants with 82-mm mortars fired at the positions of the ATU forces, near Gladosovo and May. Of the 120-mm mortar shell, the enemy shelled the Novotoshkovskoye settlement.

In the Donetsk direction in the evening, the epicenter of the confrontation was the neighborhood of Avdeevka, where the militants used heavy mortars. In addition, in this area, the militants fired a dozen artillery shells of 122-mm caliber and the same number of mines on the Ukrainian defensive fortifications near Kamenka. Also, more than 20 minutes of various calibers broke off near Butovka mine.

Recall that for the past day Tuesday, December 19, Russian mercenaries and subordinate militants 32 times violated the regime of silence in the area of ??the antiterrorist operation. As a result of shelling, two Ukrainian soldiers died. Another five soldiers were slightly injured and one was injured.