The enemy doubled the number of bombardments. Only during the last day of Sunday, August 20, the militants opened fire on our positions 47 times.

As a result of such actions, five soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were injured. Another three - combat injuries.

According to URA-Inform, referring to the data of the press center of the headquarters of the ATU, the greatest number of attacks was recorded in the Donetsk direction. Here, from five o'clock in the evening until midnight, the gangs were continuously firing at our strong points in the Avdeevsky industrial zone. The enemy actively used grenade launchers and heavy machine guns. Then, at about six o'clock in the evening, the enemy first attacked from mortars of various calibers, and then fired 16 shells from a portable jet launcher Grad "Partisan.

In addition, in the evening the militants twice used mortars on the approaches to the Experimental, as a result of which the military APU was wounded.

Also, militants hit the Ukrainian positions near Kamenka and Peskov. In the Primorsky direction, the enemy was hitting the positions of the Armed Forces in the area of ??Vodyanoy, Krasnogorovka, Pavlopol, Marinka and Talakivka. At the same time, the houses of civilians in Maryinka.

The activity of militants was minimal in the Lugansk direction. Here the enemy opened fire on the Ukrainian positions near the Crimean and Novoaleksandrivka.

To prevent another escalation of the conflict, the ATO command proposed a reinforced enemy ceasefire.

First, representatives of illegal armed formations agreed to observe the regime of silence, and within a few hours they themselves broke it and significantly increased their fire activity, "explained at the headquarters of the ATU.

Recall, about 3.8 million Ukrainian citizens who live in the Donbass, are in dire need of assistance. It's about citizens who live on both sides of the line of contact in the east. Now these people need humanitarian assistance, explained in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.