Over the past day, militants of illegal armed formations shelled the Ukrainian Armed Forces positions 22 times in the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) zone, as a result of which, three Ukrainian servicemen were wounded, the ATO press center headquarters reported.

"Militants did not reduce the number of armed provocations at the end of last day in the ATO area. After 18:00, Russian-occupation groups continued to use weapons, the caliber of which exceeds 100 millimeters and to hold active combat operations near Avdiyivka industrial zone," the press center said in Facebook.

In the Donetsk sector, from evening until midnight militants shelled the Avdiyivka industrial zone from Yasynuvata, Yakovlivka and Spartak from grenade launchers, heavy machine guns and small arms4 Troyitske was shelled from mortars of 82 mm caliber.

In the Luhansk sector, militants fired at the outskirts of Katerynivka from 120 mm mortars, at Novotoshkivske and Novoaleksandrivka using mortars of 82 mm caliber, Stanytsia Luhanska was shelled using large-caliber machine guns.

In the Mariupol sector, around 20.00 the area of Taramchuk was shelled from rocket-propelled grenades launchers and small arms.