Over the past day, illegal armed groups carried out 69 shelling attacks of the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, as a result of which nine Ukrainian servicemen were wounded, and two more were injured, the press center of the ATO headquarters reported.

"Over the past 24 hours, the militants of the Russian-occupation forces carried out 69 shelling attacks on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, using weapons prohibited by the Minsk agreements," the press service said in a report posted on its Facebook page on Wednesday morning.