Illegal armed formations do not reduce the intensity of their bombardment of the ATO positions in Donbas firing at any time of the day, and not only in the dark, as it was last week, the press center of the ATO headquarters said.

"The intensity of shelling of Ukraine's Armed Forces' positions in the ATO zone does not decrease. If last week the main activity of Russian-occupation groups was recorded at night, then for several days the bandits have been firing on our positions without time restrictions, using increasingly heavy weapons," the press center reported (as of Wednesday, 18:00) on its Facebook page.

So, about 8 a.m. in the area of Shyrokyne and Vodiane, the militants were firing on Ukrainian positions from artillery of 122 mm caliber for almost half an hour. Simultaneously, five projectiles from the portable rocket launcher Grad-P (Partizan) were launched at the Ukrainian fortifications on the approaches to Shyrokyne.

In the Donetsk sector, from midnight, the enemy fired on Ukrainian strongholds near the Avdiyivska industrial zone four times, mainly using grenade launchers and heavy machine guns. At the same time, the Ukrainian military responded operatively and rigidly to the attempts of militants to launch long-term hostilities.

In the Luhansk sector, illegal armed formations used a 120-mm mortar in the vicinity of Novo-Oleksandrivka, and they fired from a grenade launcher in the Krymske area.