ATO HQ reports four KIA's, 17 WIA's amid 114 attacks in past day

Ukrainian positions in Donbas were shelled 114 times in the past day, resulting into four killed in action (KIA) and 17 wounded in action (WIA), the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) has said.

"Four of our servicemen have died, seventeen have been wounded," ATO HQ wrote on Facebook on Friday.

Illegal armed formations in the Donetsk sector used proscribed weapons, namely Grad multiple rocket launchers to shell the town of Avdiyivka, the villages of Pisky, Kamyanka and Opytne. Main battle tanks, mortars of various calibers, grenade launchers and small arms were also engaged by the enemy during the whole day in this sector. The villages of Hranitne and Luhanske came under 122mm artillery fire. Mortars of various calibers were fired on the villages of Luhanske, Novhorodske, Troyitske, Verkhniotoretske, Vodiane, Pisky, and the town of Maryinka.

The sector named after the nearby Ukrainian-controlled strategic port city of Mariupol also countered attacks with the use of heavy weapons, which are banned by the Minsk peace agreements on Donbas. In particular, Grad BM-21 multiple rocket launchers shelled Ukrainian positions in the villages of Shyrokyne, Novohryhorivka and Starohnativka, while 122mm artillery systems, and 120mm and 82 mm were used to fire on the villages of Vodiane, Bohdanivka, Hranitne, Shyrokyne, Opytne, Chermalyk, and the towns of Krasnohorivka and Maryinka. The villages of Berezove, Pavlopil, Hnutove, and Vodiane came under fire from grenade launchers, anti-aircraft weapons, and small arms. Further, antitank guided missile launchers were fired on Chermalyk, while Ukrainian troops stationed near Maryinka and Pavlopil were under sniper fire.

In the Luhansk sector, the occupiers used 152mm artillery systems to attack the village of Novozvanivka and mortars to fire on the villages of Krymske and Syze. Grenade launchers and small arms were used to shell on the villages of Novozvanivka and Novo-Oleksandrivka.