A Ukrainian warfighter was wounded in action on March 2 as routine low-intensity armed clashes continued in the war zone of Donbas, as the Joint Operative Headquarters, a Ukrainian principal military command center in the embattled region, reported early on March 3.
In general, seven armed engagements have seen recorded overnight, with three incidents of the use of heavy weaponry inducing 120- and 82-millimeter mortars banned under the Minsk agreements.
Fresh clashes with Russian-sponsored forces occurred just east of the port city of Mariupol, near the destroyed Donetsk Airport, and also near the occupied city of Horlivka. Early in the morning, there had been two series of shelling from 120-millimeters near the villages of Zolote-4 and Novozvanivka close to Horlivka, with the enemy forces firing as many as 30 shells again the Ukrainian lines.
As the military said, the Ukrainian troops were responding to the enemy attacks with all means available.
The early day of March 3 brought no new casualties in Ukrainian ranks.
Just several days before the heavy mortar attack near Zolote-4 and Novozvanivka, there had been another shelling from 120-millimeter weapons upon civilian targets in the residential areas of the town of Troitske.
Late on March 2, the Ukrainian party of the Joint Coordination and Control Center, a multisided military liaison body, reported that as many as four houses had been badly damaged by mortar shells fired by Russian-backed forces deployed near the occupied village of Kalynyne some six kilometers east.
The shell impacts also left the local power grid disrupted, the Ukrainian military said.
Fortunately, the shelling resulted in no casualties among the local civilian population.
