Forty-three violations of the ceasefire were committed in Donbas on Wednesday, when Ukraine marked its Independence Day, the press center of the headquarters of Kyiv's army operation said.

"The adversary has been firing 122mm artillery systems on Troitske and Luhanske in the Donetsk region since midnight. Avdiyivka, Svetlodarsk and Nevelske came under mortar strikes, and banned 120mm weapons were also used. More than 30 strikes from tanks were recorded near Avdiyivka," the press center said in its 6:00 p.m. report, published on the press center's Facebook page.

Militant forces used heavy artillery and fired around 120 projectiles on Shyrokyne, located near the city of Mariupol, the press center said. Ukrainian military positions in Novohryhorivka, Shyrokyne and Starohnativka came under 120mm mortar fire. Militant units used 82mm mortars against Maryinka and Krasnohorivka and grenade launchers in Vodiane. A sniper was active in Novotroitske.

Militant forces also fired 50 152mm heavy artillery projectiles on the Ukrainian army's fortifications in Kalynova, Popasna, Novozvanivka, Zholobok and Novotoshkivske in the Luhansk region, and another 15 122mm projectiles were fired on Krymske, the headquarters said.

Militant units more than once used grenade launchers, large-caliber machineguns and small arms, including sniper rifles, in Novooleksandrivka, it said. Large-caliber machineguns were fired in Zolote, and tanks were used against Ukrainian positions in Krymske.