Five Ukrainian servicemen injured in Donbas over past 24 hours

15:50, 11.07.2015 1 min read

Five Ukrainian servicemen have been injured in the anti-terrorist operation (ATO) zone in eastern Ukraine over the past 24 hours, and no one has been killed, Andriy Lysenko, the Ukrainian presidential spokesman for ATO, said at a news briefing in Kyiv on Saturday.

The servicemen were injured in an area in Luhansk and Donetsk regions between the Bakhmutka motorway and Avdiyivka, he said.Donbas

The ATO press center reports that monitors from the Joint Center for Control and Coordination (JCCC) have been recording ceasefire violations by militants.

"On July 10, JCCC monitors documented attacks on Ukrainian armed forces' positions in the southern part of the community of Shyrokyne. Fire was opened twice in the evening, the first time with firearms, continuing 47 minutes from 5:45 p.m. to 6:32 p.m., and the second time with a 122-mm self-propelled artillery system, continuing ten minutes from 7:40 p.m. to 7:50 p.m. The attacks did not cause casualties," the press center said on Facebook.