Ukrainian army reports strikes by militants and two armed clashes

According to the press centre, on Thursday evening, a unit of up to 30 militiamen armed with mortars entered into an armed clash with Ukrainian soldiers near the town of Mayorsk. Militants suffered losses and retreated after two hours of fighting. Another armed clash broke out in the vicinity of Maryinka, where separatists also sustained losses and had to retreat. Positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near Donetsk and Horlivka also came under fire overnight. In another development, acting on a tip-off, officers of the Ukrainian Defence Ministry's central reconnaissance department and special services found a cache filled with weapons and ammunition near the village of Velyka Novosilka in Donetsk region. Fifteen anti-tank hand-held grenade launchers and more than 12,000 different cartridges were confiscated from the cache.