Russian-terrorist forces fired upon the positions of the Ukrainian military in the Donbas 28 times. Despite the ceasefire agreement reached by the Tripartite Contact Group on April 1, provocative shelling by the militants of the positions of the ATU forces does not stop, the situation remains difficult. To suppress the enemy's fire activity in Troitsk, the ATU forces opened fire in response from automatic grenade launchers.

On the Lugansk direction, militants with 120 mm and 82 mm mortars, grenade launchers of various systems and machine guns of large calibers covered the strong points of the Ukrainian military near the Crimean and Novozvanovka. Mortars of the caliber of 82 mm terrorists also used under Katerinovka and Troitsky. Defenders of the Troitsky invaders were also fired from mortars of 82 mm caliber and anti-tank grenade launchers. Of the grenade launchers and large-caliber machine guns, the enemy was hitting the positions of the APU near Novoaleksandrovka.

On the Donetsk direction under the shelling of mortars of 120 mm caliber, the support points of the APU fighters near Lugansk hit, and under fire from 82-millimeter ones - in Zaitsev. The support points in the Avdeevka area were covered by fire from anti-tank grenade launchers, in addition, at this site there were enemy snipers.

In the Mariupol direction, the militants displayed fire activity near Pavlopol, whose defenders were fired from grenade launchers. On the defenders of Shirokino, Vodyannoy, Gnutovo and Krasnogorovka terrorists were beating from grenade launchers of various systems and machine guns of large calibers. In Gnutovom actively worked the enemy snipers.

Recall, on the eve of the militants fired 55 times the fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Terrorists actively used mortars, armored vehicles and antiaircraft systems.

On April 12, the Tripartite Contact Group during the meeting in Minsk confirmed the commitment to the agreements reached on March 29 on a complete ceasefire on the eve of the Easter holidays. However, terrorists in the Donbas did not observe the "silence" regime for a single day..