Militants attack Ukraine four times in past day, no casualties reported

11:21, 29.01.2018 1 min read

 Russia's proxy forces have mounted four attacks on Ukrainian army positions in Donbas in the past 24 hours, with no Ukrainian soldiers reported as killed or wounded in action, the press centre of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) has reported.

"In general, over the past day, four shelling attacks of the fortifications of the Armed Forces of Ukraine by Russian-occupation units have been recorded. As a result of these hostile actions, no Ukrainian defender suffered," the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) Headquarters said on Facebook on Monday, January 29.

In the Luhansk sector, the militants were active at the Svitlodarska Duha bulge in the evening. The enemy opened fire from 120mm mortars and heavy machine guns several times near the village of Luhanske. Mortars of the same caliber were used by the enemy to shell our positions near the village of Troyitske.

The enemy used grenade launchers to shell Ukrainian fortified positions near the village of Shyrokyne in the Donetsk sector.