As a result of the incident, the Ukrainian military. This was in Kiev at a briefing, said the speaker of the Ministry of Defense on ATO Alexander Motuzyanikya.

According to him, all illegal armed formations released on our positions 15 minutes of a caliber of 82 mm and carried out fire influence from small arms lasting more than half an hour. At the same time, he assured that the APU adhered to their commitments to a full ceasefire and did not open fire in response.

At the same time, according to the state of the antiterrorist operation, as of 6 pm on Monday, there were six facts of violation of the "silence regime" on the part of the militants near Novotroitsk. In response, the Ukrainian military were forced to open fire.

Compliance ceasefire through the fault of the Russian-occupation groups and there is no further. The enemy continues to shell out the defensive fortifications of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the weapons banned by the Minsk agreement, "it was said in the summary of the press center of the headquarters of the ATU.

So according to the data, on the Lugansk direction the militants fired more than two hours from heavy machine guns and 120-mm mortars at positions of the Ukrainian military near Lugansk, having fired about 50 mines in this area.

Not far from Svetlodorsk, the invaders fired our warriors from grenade launchers and machine guns, "the bulletin says.

In the Donetsk direction, the militants used heavy mortars of the 120 mm caliber to the Azov region on the positions of the ATU forces near Pavlopol, and the arms of the BMP, grenade launchers and machine guns near Talakovka.

Two more times during lunch time, the occupiers from small arms, including snipers, fired at the strongholds of the ATU around Novotroitsky. In both of these cases, our defenders were forced to give the enemy an adequate response from small arms, "the headquarters.

Recall as reported URA-Inform, for the first time in the area of ??the antiterrorist operation on January 7, there were no shelling by militants.