Since the beginning of the day, militants have violated the ceasefire regime in Donbas 18 times, repeatedly using 120-mm mortars banned by the Minsk agreements, as a result of which one soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was killed and six more were wounded, the ATO press center headquarters said on Thursday.

"Since the beginning of the day, one soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has been killed, six more have been wounded," the ATO headquarters' press center said in a report as of 18.00 on Thursday published on their Facebook page.