ATO HQ reports 15 attacks on Ukrainian army, one wounded serviceman
In total, during the past day, Russian-backed militants violated the cease fire regime 15 times, while the Ukrainian military opened fire on the enemy nine times in response, one Ukrainian soldier was injured as a result of hostilities, the press center of the ATO headquarters has reported.
"At the end of the past day, the situation in the combat area remained tense, but controlled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Illegal armed formations continued shelling the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, using unauthorized armaments," the report posted by the ATO staff on its Facebook page on Thursday morning, reads.
At night, militants attacked the strongholds of the Ukrainian Armed Forces from 120 mm mortar shells not far from Troyitske. And at about 23: near the same village they fired 20 shells from the rocket fire system. In addition, in the evening the illegal armed formations fired 120-mm mortar shells into the residential sector of the village of Vodiane.
In the Donetsk sector, the Ukrainian positions on the outskirts of Avdiyivka and the Butovka mine came under fire of the grenade launcher.
The militants used the same weapons near Krymske in the Luhansk sector.
