Ukraine reports 33 militant attacks in Donbas in past day
Donbas militants violated the ceasefire in eastern Ukraine 33 times in the past day, Ukraine's Anti-Terrorist Operation Headquarters has reported.
The village of Lebedynske in the Mariupol sector came under artillery fire, while mortars were used to shell the town of Krasnohorivka, and the villages of Novotroyitske, Shyrokyne, Taramchuk, Berezove, and Lebedynske on December 20, the ATO HQ said. Grenade launchers of various systems were used to attack the village of Talakivka, while grenade launchers and guns of infantry fighting vehicles were used to shell the villages of Novotroyitske and Berezove.
Russian-backed separatists in the Luhansk sector used mortars and grenade launchers to fire on the villages of Novozvanivka, Stanytsia Luhanska and Novo-Oleksandrivka. They also used grenade launchers and small arms to shell the village of Syze. Stanytsia Luhanska also came under aiming sniper fire.
The occupation forces in the Donetsk sector used the banned 122mm artillery system to shell Ukrainian positions near the village of Luhanske, near the Svitlodarska Duha stretch. They used mortars, grenade launchers and large-caliber machine guns to fire on the town of Avdiyivka and Luhanske.