The Donbas standoff shifted to the village of Shyrokyne in the Mariupol sector as of Thursday morning, speaker for the army operation in Donbas Anatoliy Stelmakh said.

"Shyrokyne has been bombed practically round-the-clock. There have been 13 mortar and artillery attacks over the past day. Besides, the enemy has used tanks. We can say that Shyrokyne has become the epicenter of the hostilities," Stelmakh said at a press briefing in Kyiv on Thursday.

Besides, Stelmakh said that the militants five times shelled Avdiyivka, four times – Doslidne, and eight times – Pisky and Vodiane areas in Donetsk region for past 24 hours.

Meanwhile, Luhansk region was shelled three times by the militants, in particular the town of Zolote and the village of Semyhirya felt artillery attacks to the utmost.

In all, there have been about 40 shooting incidents in the past 24 hours, he added.