Russian-backed militants attacked Ukrainian troops in Donbas about 40 times overnight, the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) press center reported on its page on December 11.
Illegal armed formations intensively shelled the positions of the ATO forces near the militant-occupied city of Donetsk. In particular, they used small arms, machine-guns and grenade launchers of various systems to shell the villages of Opytne, Pisky, Novhorodske, and the town of Krasnohorivka. Several dozen 120mm and 82mm shells launched by the enemy exploded near Krasnohorivka.
At night, militants also used 120mm mortars, large-caliber machine-guns, grenade launchers to shell Ukrainian troops near the village of Zaitseve, which was also under sniper fire.
