Militants opened fire on Ukrainian positions seven times. As a result of shelling, three Ukrainian soldiers died. Another three were injured, and one - a military trauma. As reported URA-Inform, referring to the press center of the headquarters of the ATU, in one case of violations by the militants of the regime of silence, the Ukrainian military gave the aggressor an adequate response.
At the same time, in the Lugansk direction, militants were fired from mortars of various calibers of the APU strengthening near Troitsk. Particular fire activity of illegal armed groups also showed in the area of ??the Svetlodarskaya arc. In particular, at the approaches to Lugansk, fire was fired from 120 and 82-mm mortars and large-caliber machine guns.
In addition, around Novolugansk an hour and a half the militants fired Ukrainian positions from grenade launchers, machine guns and mortars of various calibers.
In the Donetsk direction militants violated ceasefire agreements from automatic grenade launchers near Verkhnetoretsky and Butovka mine.
Recall that for the past day on Tuesday, January 9, Russian mercenaries and subordinate militants opened fire three times on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.