Five Ukrainian soldiers wounded in ATO zone on Nov 25

Five Ukrainian soldiers were injured in the anti-terrorist operation zone as a result of shellings by the enemy on Friday, November 25, the Defense Ministry's spokesman for the ATO matters, Andriy Lysenko, has said.

"Yesterday, no Ukrainian servicemen were killed and five were wounded. It all happened during enemy attacks," he said at a briefing in Kyiv on Saturday.

n the Luhansk sector, an armed clash took place near Novozvanivka, Lysenko said. The fighting lasted about half an hour, and no Ukrainian troops were injured. Militants also violated the ceasefire in Novooleksandrivka and Krymske, including with the use of mortars, he said.

"The enemy shelled our positions in the Luhansk sector a total of eight times over the past 24 hours, including once with heavy weapons, and there has also been an armed clash," he said.

In the Donetsk sector, fighting took place in the Svitlodar Arc area and in the Avdiyivka industrial zone, where militants used mortars twice, Lysenko said. Some of these attacks lasted more than 2.5 hours. A total of five enemy attacks have been recorded over the past 24 hours, including two using mortars, he said.

In the Mariupol sector, militants are continuing to massively shell government forces' positions in the coastal area. In particular, more than 40 mortar mines and several artillery rounds were fired upon Ukrainian government forces' positions in the Pavlopil and Shyrokyne area on Friday. The intensity of these attacks was the highest between 3:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m., he said.

Militants also violated the ceasefire in Dokuchayivsk.

They shelled the government forces' positions in the Mariupol sector a total of 23 times over the previous 24 hours, including nine times with heavy weapons, Lysenko said.