Two Ukrainian servicemen have been injured in the Anti-Terrorist operation (ATO) zone in the east of the country over the past day, Spokesman for the Defense Ministry of Ukraine on ATO Issues Oleksandr Motuzianyk has said.
“Over the past day as a result of the fighting, none of the Ukrainian military was killed, but two soldiers were wounded,” he said at a briefing in Kyiv on Wednesday.
Motuzianyk said that the enemy carried out seven provocations in the Luhansk sector of Popasna area using rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns. Each episode lasted about 15 minutes.
In the Donetsk sector militants continue using heavy weapons in violation of the Minsk agreements, in particular, mortars are actively used on the Svitlodarsk bulge. Militants fired 35 mortar shells during the shelling of Anti-Terrorist operation (ATO) forces position near the village of Luhanske. The rest of the attacks occurred in the industrial zone of Avdiyivka and the vicinity of Horlivka. There were recorded 14 armed provocations, three of them – with the use of heavy weapons in the Donetsk sector just over a day.
In the Mariupol sector the situation remains largely unchanged: two thirds of attacks falls on the coastal borders, in particular, on Shyrokyne and Vodiane. Fighters used armored vehicles. Enemy snipers worked there. Ukrainian ATO positions were fired by three mortar shells in Shyrokyne. In addition, the ceasefire regime was violated in Maryinka-Krasnohorivka, Pavlopil and Talakivka. A total of 18 cases of ceasefire violation were recorded in the Mariupol sector over the day, one of them – with the use of heavy weapons.
