Militants violated the ceasefire in Donbas nine times on Monday, wounding two Ukrainian servicemen, the press center of the Joint Forces Operation (JFO) headquarters has said.

"Today, from 07.00 to 18.00, Russian occupation forces violated the ceasefire nine times. At the same time, four cases of the use of weapons banned by the Minsk agreements were recorded," the JFO HQ said in a report on its Facebook page.

The report notes that militants opened fire from grenade launchers, heavy machineguns and small arms on the positions of the Joint Forces near Krymske, Katerynivka, Troitske, Vodiane, and Lebedynske.