Over the past day, from 5 to 6 May, the ATU headquarters recorded 63 shelling of the APU positions in Donbass. Five Ukrainian soldiers received injuries.

According to the press center of the headquarters, in the Primorsky direction the enemy used mortars of 120 mm caliber, anti-tank grenade launchers and heavy machine guns for firing at strongpoints near Pavlopol. 120-mm mortars, machine guns and small arms were used by militants near Gnutovo, and 82-mm mortars, BMP weapons, anti-tank grenade launchers, machine guns and small arms were used to fire the positions of the APU near Marinka.

The positions of the ATU forces near the Water enemy also fired from 82-mm mortars, armored vehicles, anti-tank grenade launchers, heavy machine guns and small arms. Defenders of Krasnogorov were fired from the arms of infantry fighting vehicles, grenade launchers of various systems and machine guns.

The positions of the ATU forces at Shirokino and Bogdanovka were fired upon by terrorists from small arms; Strongholds near Novogrigorovka - from machine guns. Ukrainian positions near Novotroitsky and Lebedinsky enemy fired from grenade launchers and small arms. In the area of ??Vodyanoy there were also enemy snipers.