Ukrainian army positions in Donbas came under 44 militant attacks in the past 24 hours, the army operation press center said on Facebook on Thursday.

According to the press center, 25 shelling incidents were observed in the Mariupol sector. The militants fired small arms, grenade launchers, weapons of infantry combat vehicles and 82mm and 120mm mortars on the vicinities of Pavlopil, Novotroyitske, Shyrokyne, Vodiane, Krasnohorivka, Bohdanivka, Hnutove and Maryinka.

Fourteen attacks on Ukrainian army positions by use of various types of armaments, including mortars, were observed in the Luhansk sector, it said.

The ceasefire was breached five times in the Donetsk sector, where Avdiyivka and Luhanske were shelled, the press center said.