Seven Ukrainian servicemen suffered injuries and traumas in the military operation zone in Donbas in the past 24 hours, Ukrainian Defense Ministry spokesman Andriy Lysenko said on Wednesday.

"No Ukrainian serviceman was killed, but seven combatants suffered injuries and traumas in hostilities in the past 24 hours," Lysenko said at a briefing in Kyiv on Wednesday.

The militants have shelled Ukrainian army positions a total of 108 times in the past 24 hours, he said. For instance, 16 shell attacks were recorded in the Luhansk sector; eight of them from heavy weaponry, hostilities were most intense in the Novoaidar area.

"Hostiles continued to employ heavy weapons against the defenders of Krymske yesterday, having fired 25 artillery shells and over 50 mines in the past 24 hours," the Defense Ministry spokesman said.

He affirms that there has also been unquiet on the Bahmut highway, where in Novotoshkivske militants have fired grenade launchers and have carried out a massive mortar attack, having fired some 50 mines on Ukrainian army positions.

At the same time, the intensity of shell attacks has lowered in the Popasna area: a mortar attack near Novo-Oleksandrivka and five grenade launcher attacks were recorded. Furthermore, the militants have breached the ceasefire twice in the Stanytsia Luhanska area, he said.

Meanwhile, militants have shelled Ukrainian army positions 35 times in the Donetsk sector, of which 15 from heavy weaponry, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry spokesman said.

Besides, Lysenko highlighted lowering intensity of shelling in Avdiyivka and its suburbs that allows conducting operations to restore the damaged infrastructure in the city and resume electric power supply. Avdiyivka is still being provided with water up to the schedule from city water tanks.

"Hostilities of low and moderate intensity with sporadic use of heavy weaponry, in particular, mortars continue on the Svitlodarsk bulge, along the Horlivka perimeter and near the Donetsk airfield," the Defense Ministry spokesman said.

The militants have shelled Ukrainian army positions 57 times in the Mariupol sector.

The militants have breached the ceasefire thrice in the Maryinka area, he said. They have fired ten artillery shells at Ukrainian army positions in the Dokuchayevsk area, Lysenko said.