09:33 15.06.2016

Militants attack ATO positions along contact line, use forbidden weapons

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Militants attack ATO positions along contact line, use forbidden weapons

The situation in the anti-terrorist operation (ATO) zone in Donbas remains tense. The number of attacks increased over the past 24 hours. Enemy shootings became even more intensive as of 06:00 p.m., the press center of the ATO headquarters reported on Wednesday morning.

"Fifty-eight attacks, including 32 in the Mariupol, 24 in the Donetsk, and three in the Luhansk sectors, were registered. The Russian occupation army broke the Minsk agreements by using mortars 18 times, artillery systems three times and a tank once," the ATO HQ wrote no Facebook.

In the Mariupol sector, gunfire was most intense near the town of Pavlopil where the militants used mortars and 122mm self-propelled artillery and launched attacks, the report said. Ukrainian army positions were twice attacked by a tank near Krasnohorivka at approximately 10 p.m.

Ukrainian army positions near Maryinka, Taramchuk and Novotroitske came under mortar fire, and various types of grenade launchers and large-caliber machineguns were fired on Ukrainian army positions near Hnutove, Talakivka, Chermalyk and Shyrokyne. In addition, the militants fired four shots from 122mm self-propelled artillery on Chermalyk, the report said.

In the Donetsk sector, the militant's mortars fired on Ukrainian army positions near Nevelske, Pisky, Avdiyivka, Verkhniotoretske and Luhanske, while heavy mortars and 152mm weapons bombarded the Putylivska (Butovka) mine.

The militant's large-caliber machineguns and automatic grenade launchers shelled Ukrainian army strongholds on the Svitlodarsk bulge.

The militants conducted random fire near Triokhizbenka and Nyzhnioteple in the Luhansk sector, it said.

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