11:29 08.01.2016

Ukrainian military say their positions shelled on 24 occasions in Donbas over past day

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The militants have violated the ceasefire regime on 24 occasions in Donbas over the past day, the press center of the headquarters of the military operation said on its Facebook page on Friday morning.

In particular, the militants have fired 82mm mortars on the positions of the Ukrainian military situated on the northern outskirts of Lebedynske not far from Mariupol since Thursday evening. A Ukrainian checkpoint in the Zaitseve area has been shelled by the same weapons.

"A disturbing fire" has been waged by small arms, grenade launchers of different systems and large-caliber machineguns on several occasions in the direction of the Ukrainian military near Pisky, Opytne and Novhorodske, the headquarters said.

Since last midnight the militants, who have entrenched at the destroyed Donetsk airport, have waged the fire at random at about 1.00 a.m. for 15 minutes in the direction of Ukrainian units near Opytne.

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