Three Ukrainian soldiers have been injured in the Anti-Terrorist operation (ATO) zone in the east of the country over the past day, Ukrainian Defense Ministry spokesman Oleksandr Motuzianyk has said.

"Over the past day, as a result of the fighting, none of the Ukrainian military has been killed, while three soldiers have been injured," he said at a briefing in Kyiv on Friday.

In his words, grenade launcher and small arms fire was intense in the vicinity of Stanytsia Luhanska, Krymske and Popasna.

In the Donetsk sector, hostilities were seen all along the contact line excluding the Donetsk airport. Most shelling incidents occurred in the Avdiyivka industrial zone, the Svitlodarsk bulge and the outskirts of Horlivka, he said.

In the Mariupol sector, hostiles fired mortars near Talakivka and Krasnohorivka. In all, 24 provocations were observed in that area over the day, Motuzianyk said.