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Ukrainian government forces’ positions in Donbas have been shelled 46 times mostly using weapons banned by the Minsk Agreements over the past 24 hours, the anti-terrorist operation (ATO) staff has reported.

In the Mariupol sector, the militants fired 152mm tube artillery guns upon Talakivka, armored personnel carriers upon Shyrokyne and Berezove, tanks upon Shyrokyne, small arms, machineguns, and grenade launchers upon Maryinka, Pavlopil, and Talakivka, and mortars upon Vodiane, Novotroyitske, Krasnohorivka, Shyrokyne, Talakivka, and Pavlopil, the staff said in a bulletin posted on its Facebook account on Saturday morning.

In the Luhansk sector, the militants fired small arms, grenade launchers, and mortars at Krymske and Zhovte, and a sniper also fired upon Stanytsia Luhanska, it said.

In the Donetsk sector, Luhanske and Avdiyivka were shelled with large-caliber machineguns, grenade launchers, and mortars, it said.