On Thursday, March 16, militants of Russian-terrorist formations violated the ceasefire regime 35 times in the area of ??the antiterrorist operation. During the day, terrorists actively used mortars and artillery that were banned by the Minsk accords, the press center of the headquarters of the ATU.

The bases of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of ??Novotroitsky in the Mariupol direction were subjected to shelling from 120 mm mortars, grenade cups and guns of the BMP. According to the Water, the invaders were beaten out of 122-mm artillery, in Krasnogorovka - from 82-mm mortars. Gnutovo militants fired from the machine guns anti-tank grenade launchers and machine guns, and Shirokino - from small arms.

Troitskoe in Donetsk direction turned out to be under the fire of 122-mm artillery. Avdeevka terrorists fired from 82-mm, and Kamyanka - from 120-mm mortar shells. Zaitsevo was bombarded with mortars and grenade launchers. In the area of ??Novgorod and Avdeevka sniper activity of the enemy was recorded.

Crimean in Luhansk region, terrorists fired from 120-mm mortars, Novozvanovka - from LNG and small arms. In the Novoaleksandrivka area, provocations were recorded using heavy machine guns.

Recall that the situation in the ATU zone was seriously aggravated on January 29, when the militants launched massive shelling of Avdeyevka and its environs, while the APU units in positions near the settlement repulsed several attempts to storm. The bombardment of Avdeevka from large-caliber artillery and MLRS led to serious destruction and casualties.

Read more about the escalation of the situation near Avdeevka in Yuri Butusov's article "What happened in Avdeevka?" In the weekly "Mirror of the Week. Ukraine".