It is reported that daily pro-Russian mercenaries are firing at the positions of the APU. From the beginning of January, there was not a single day when silence continued along the line of demarcation. Most of the dead soldiers lost their lives as a result of detonation of mines and high-explosive antipersonnel missiles. During January, the ATU headquarters reported 45 injured Ukrainian soldiers, all were rescued.

It is also troublesome at the checkpoints, which are constantly forced to conduct night patrols in order to prevent militants from making raids deep into the Ukrainian rear.

Only in the past 24 hours the enemy was activated in the area of ??the Svetlodarskaya arc in the Lugansk direction. In the evening, the enemy fired more than two hours at positions of Ukrainian defenders near Lugansk from 120 mm and 82 mm mortars, arms of infantry fighting vehicles and large-caliber machine guns.

As reported in the "URA-Inform", Ukraine and the OSCE recently agreed to strengthen the work of the mission in the Donbass.