Militants shelled Ukrainian positions in Donbas 55 times on Wednesday, the anti-terrorist operation (ATO) headquarters reported.

"Three Ukrainian servicemen were wounded as a result of enemy attacks yesterday," the press center of ATO headquarters said on its Facebook account on Thursday morning.

The Ukrainian part of the Joint Center for Control and Coordination (JCCC) said that a local resident had been killed in strikes delivered on residential areas of Sukha Balka village. According to Ukraine's officials at the JCCC, heavy artillery weapons, presumably of 152mm caliber, were fired in the direction of Horlivka overnight into June 15.

"A 52-year-old man, the owner of a house on Molodizhna Street, was killed when a large-caliber shell directly hit this house," they said in a report.