"Yesterday, terrorists continued their provocative gunfire at our positions in the [operation] zone outside the cities of Donetsk and Artemivsk," the report said. It noted that rebels used small arms to open fire twice in the villages of Opytne and Krasnohorivka. And they opened fire from their heavy machine guns and small arms eight times in the villages of Mayorsk, Luhanske, Zaitseve and Leninske.