10:02 27.10.2017

Ukraine reports 20 shelling attacks on Ukrainian army, one wounded serviceman in past 24 hours – ATO

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Ukraine reports 20 shelling attacks on Ukrainian army, one wounded serviceman in past 24 hours – ATO

Over the past day, militants have violated the truce 20 times, as a result of which one Ukrainian soldier has been wounded, the press center of the ATO (Anti-Terrorist operation) headquarters has reported.

"At the end of the past day, the situation in the ATO area remained tense. The enemy's firing activity shifted from the Donetsk sector, which had previously been hot, to the Mariupol sector, where the enemy began to use mortars more and more often ... The ATO forces used weapons to defeat the enemy 16 times," the ATO staff said on Facebook on Friday morning.

In the Mariupol sector, the militants applied 82-mm mortars, anti-tank grenade launchers, and small arms four times to attack the defenders of Hnutove. They also used mortars of the 82-mm caliber near Vodiane and Pavlopil.

In the Donetsk sector, near Avdiyivska industrial zone, at the end of the day, the militants fired at strongholds of the ATO forces two times from large-caliber machine guns and small arms. As a result of grenade launcher fire, a Ukrainian soldier was injured near Pisky.

In the Luhansk sector, Ukrainian positions fell under fire of grenade launchers and small arms near Stanytsia Luhanska.

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