No Ukrainian soldiers were killed, however two were injured in the anti-terrorist operation (ATO) area in Donbas on January 7, ATO spokesman Andriy Lysenko has said.

"Yesterday, no Ukrainian soldiers were killed, two were injured," he said at a briefing in Kyiv on Thursday.

However, the situation in the ATO area remains tense, Lysenko said.

"Members of illegal armed groups carried out provocative attacks on Ukrainian military positions near Donetsk and Luhansk," he said.

Lysenko said that small arms and mortars, as well as Grad multiple rocket launchers and Uragan self-propelled multiple rocket launchers were used in these attacks.