Over the past day in the area of ??the antiterrorist operation, 43 shelling by militants. However, for yesterday, there were no losses among Ukrainian servicemen.

As reported by URA-Inform, referring to the data of the press center of the headquarters of the ATU, published on Wednesday morning, May 17, in Primorsky direction the hotspots remain in the vicinity of settlements Shirokino, Vodyanoye, Pavlopol, Gnutovo. Here militants in the evening fired on the position of the APU from small arms, large-caliber machine guns and grenade launchers. Under Shirokino and Vodyanym, the enemy also fired from the infantry fighting vehicle, while near Pavlopol they used mortars.

In the Donetsk direction militants concentrated their fire in the area of ??Avdeevka in the evening. One enemy mine of 120-mm caliber again hit the residential quarter of Avdeevka. Fortunately, none of the civilians were injured.

Eight episodes of the use of weapons by militants were recorded in the Lugansk direction. The fire was fired from 120-mm mortar round the Ukrainian fortifications near the Crimean, the Three and the Kryakovka. In the same place, militants occasionally used small arms, grenade launchers and mortars of 82-mm caliber.

And one of the strongholds of the ATU near Malinovoy was fired from small arms.

Recall, on Tuesday, May 16, about six o'clock in the evening the militants fired at the front-line city. Under fire was the old part of Avdeevka. As a result of such actions in the old part of the city, the house is damaged. As reported by the General Directorate of the National Police in the Donetsk region, during the shelling, one of the shells fell directly into the courtyard of private households on Sobornaya Street.