One Ukrainian soldier killed, one injured in ATO zone over past 24 hours

One soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was killed and one was wounded in the ATO zone in Donbas over the past 24 hours, speaker of the Defense Ministry on ATO Oleksandr Motuzianyk has stated.

"One soldier was killed and one was wounded over the past 24 hours," he said at a briefing in Kyiv.

As many as 64 Ukrainian servicemen have been taken prisoner, he said.

Twelve shelling incidents, including five employing heavy weapons, were seen in the Luhansk sector over the past day, he said.

The hostiles sent reinforcements to Slovianoserbsk and opened mortar and tank fire on Ukrainian army positions in that area, he said. Same as on the previous days, the hostiles fired on Stanytsia Luhanska and Popasna district, Motuzianyk said, adding that mortars and infantry combat vehicles were engaged in attacks on the Novo-Oleksandrivka-Novozvanivka frontline.

Intense hostilities have resumed in Pisky, the Avdiyivka industrial zone "is traditionally unquiet," and shootouts have been seen in Luhanske, Novhorodske and Verkhniotoretske, he said.

Eight shelling incidents, including four with heavy weapons, were observed in the Donetsk sector over the past day, Motuzianyk said.

In turn, the Mariupol sector witnessed 20 attacks of the hostiles, including one by use of mortars, he said.

The truce has been systematically breached in Maryinka, Taramchuk, Starohnativka and the Pavlopil-Shyrokyne frontline. In addition to small weapons, the hostiles once used an 82mm mortar, Motuzianyk said.