Over the past 24 hours, from 6 to 7 May, the militants opened fire on enemy strongholds in the Donbass region 45 times. Five Ukrainian soldiers received injuries.
According to the press center of the ATU headquarters, terrorists used mortars of 82 and 120 mm calibers, a tank, grenade launchers, large-caliber machine guns and small arms in Donetsk direction to fire Ukrainian positions near Avdeevka. From 120 mm mortar shells, weapons of the BMP, grenade launchers and machine guns, the enemy fired defenders of Lugansk. Of the 82 mm mortars, grenade launchers and machine guns, the positions of the ATU forces near Verkhnetoretsky.
Near Peskov militants used BMP, grenade launchers and machine guns; Near the Butovka mine, Majororsk, Kamenka and Zaitsevo, the enemy used grenade launchers and machine guns. Near Zaitsevo, Pilot and Peskov snipers of the enemy also acted.
In the coastal area, terrorists fired Ukrainian positions near Shirokino from 120 mm mortars, arms of infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers and small arms. Of the 82 mm mortars, grenade launchers and heavy machine guns, the enemy was attacking the main points of the APU at Pavlopol, and from the armament of an armored personnel carrier, ZU-23-2 anti-aircraft guns and small arms - along Ukrainian positions near Vodyanoy. Of 82-mm mortar shells, weapons of the BMP, grenade launchers and machine guns, the enemy shelled the defenders of Krasnogorovka and Maryinka. From mortars of the caliber of 82 mm and small arms - according to the positions of the forces of the ATU near Gnutovo.
Terrorists used machine guns near Chermalyk, while in the area of ??Vodian there were also enemy snipers.
On the Lugansk direction, the enemy fired on the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near Krymsky, using 120 mm mortars, infantry fighting vehicles, ATGMs and machine guns. The main points of the ATU forces near Novozvanovka and Novoaleksandrovka were fired from 120 mm mortars and machine guns. From antitank grenade launchers the enemy fired Ukrainian positions near Troitsky, and from small arms and automatic grenade launchers - strong points near the village of Lugansk.
It is noted that in order to suppress the enemy's firing activity at the positions of the Armed Forces near Avdeyevka, the forces of the ATU opened fire from automatic grenade launchers.
Recall, on March 29, the Tripartite Contact Group in Minsk agreed on the introduction of the regime of a complete ceasefire in the ATU zone from April 1, as well as the withdrawal of forces and assets from Luganskaya Stanitsa.
Since the announcement of the silence regime in the ATU zone, militants have been violating it daily, including actively using the types of weapons prohibited by the Minsk accords.