Over the past day, Monday, June 5, militants opened fire on our positions 44 times. As a result of the fighting, four Ukrainian defenders were injured.
As reported URA-Inform, referring to the press center of the headquarters of the ATU, in the coastal area for the first time in the last few days, the militants used rocket launcher systems. From the weapons banned by Minsk, the enemy fired in the area of ??Bogdanovka.
Here, too, he hit the Ukrainian positions from 120-mm mortars. In the same direction from the mortars of 120 mm caliber, the militants fired on the forces of the ATU, which keep the defenses near Chermalyk and Krasnogorovka. Under the enemy shelling yesterday also hit positions near Vodyanoy, Shirokino, Pavlopol, Novotroitsky, Gnutovo, Talakivka and Maryinka.
In the same direction, three enemy shellings of inhabited neighborhoods were recorded. In the morning, two hostile mines hit near the houses in Krasnogorovka. Later several artillery shells of the enemy exploded in the residential sector of Pavlopol. About nine o'clock in the evening the invaders from the machine-gun anti-tank grenade launcher hit the Marinka street. As a result of these attacks, none of the civilians were injured.
In the Donetsk direction militants opened fire on Ukrainian soldiers 26 times. As before, the hottest point remains Avdeevka. Here militants regularly fired from large-caliber mortars, tank guns and less powerful infantry weapons. In addition, the enemy from the forbidden mortars and armament of the tank was attacked by our strongpoints near Peskov. It was also troublesome in the Zaitsevo, Novgorod, Verkhnetoretsky, Experimental and Nevelskiy districts.
On the Lugansk direction, militants from 120 mm mortar shells fired several times in the Crimean, Kryakovka and Novotoshkovskiy areas. Nearby Novoaleksandrovka also recorded the use of militants mortars caliber 82 mm.
Recall, on Monday the militants continued to violate the regime of silence. For the day the enemy opened fire 31 times on the positions of the forces of the antiterrorist operation. As a result of such actions, three Ukrainian servicemen were injured.