Russia's hybrid military forces have attacked Ukrainian armed forces' positions in Donbas 35 times in the past 24 hours, and five Ukrainian soldiers had been injured, the press service of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) headquarters has reported.

"After 18:00 Russian backed militants continued shelling ATO forces positions mainly in the coastal area and Donetsk area. The enemy also used mortars in some cases," ATO HQ reported on Saturday morning.

In the Donetsk area, militants opened fire twice shelling Ukrainian positions near Pisky. During almost two-hour shelling more than 20 mines of various calibers were fired. Also, militants used grenade launchers, large-caliber machine guns and weapons of the infantry fighting vehicles. In addition, at the end of the day, the Ukrainian Armed Forces' positions were under the grenade launcher fire several times in the Avdiyivka industrial zone and at Butovka mine. At about 18.00, after shelling the Ukrainian fortifications in the outskirts of Semyhiria using the infantry fighting vehicles and anti-aircraft gun by militants, a soldier of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was wounded.

In the coastal area militants used 82-mm mortars near Maryinka. Fire from the grenade launchers was opened near Starohantivka. Small arms and large-caliber machine guns of the enemy were used in the vicinity of Lebedynske and Talakivka. At about 22.00 as a result of firing the positions of the ATO forces from the grenade launcher near Vodiane one more Ukrainian soldier was injured.

In the Lugansk area, the facts of the use of grenade launchers by militants were recorded twice at Krymske and once near Stanytsia Luhanska.