Ukraine reports 64 militant attacks in past 24 hours
Donbas militants conducted 64 attacks, including 59 on Ukrainian army positions, in the past 24 hours, the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) headquarters said on Monday.
The enemy's mortars, grenade launchers and machineguns shelled Ukrainian army positions in Avdiyivka in the Donetsk sector, the press center said. Mounted automatic grenade launchers, 82mm mortars and large-caliber machine-guns fired on positions in the Svitlodarsk bulge. The village of Leninske came under machinegun and grenade launcher fire. A sniper was active in the village of Verkhniotoretske.
The Donetsk sector was attacked 23 times, the Mariupol sector 28, and the Luhansk sector eight times.
In the Mariupol sector, the militants used 122mm artillery near the village of Novoselivka, and 82mm mortars, grenade launchers and large-caliber machine-guns were fired in Taramchuk. Ukrainian army positions in the town of Maryinka and the village of Talakivka came under fire of mortars, machine-guns and small arms, and fire was mostly coming from grenade launchers in the villages of Vodiane, Hnutove and Shyrokyne, the report said.
Small arms were used to fire on the town of Krasnohorivka, and the villages of Starohnativka and Bohdanivka. The enemy also actively engaged armored vehicles near Shyrokyne, Talakivka, Maryinka, and Vodiane.
In the Luhansk sector, Ukrainian army positions were attacked by 122mm self-propelled artillery systems and 120mm mortars. The militants fired 82mm mortars, large-caliber machine-guns, mounted automatic grenade launchers and small arms on Ukrainian army positions in the villages of Novo-Oleksandrivka and Novozvanivka. A sniper has been working near the village of Zhovte for the third day in a row.
"The enemy attempted to seize a Ukrainian fortified position near Novo-Oleksandrivka. At about 10:10 local time, their sabotage and reconnaissance group of up to three to six men came at a distance of 100 meters from the village of Kalynove and opened fire from large-caliber machine-guns and small arms. A skirmish lasted for about 20 minutes. Having suffered losses, the enemy had to retreat," the ATO HQ said.