Militants have opened fire on Ukrainian military positions in Donbas on 44 occasions in the past 24 hours, with the most tense situation recorded in the Donetsk airport area, the press center of the headquarters of Kyiv's anti-terrorist operation in eastern Ukraine reported on Tuesday.
Militants shelled positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near the localities of Opytne, Pisky, Luhanske, Novhorodske, Zaitseve and Maryinka, the press center said on its Facebook account.
At around 11:00 p.m. on Monday, militants fired a tank at a Ukrainian military checkpoint in the vicinity of Pisky.
Small arms, large-caliber submachine guns and grenade launchers of different systems were used against Ukrainian army positions in the Donetsk airport area.
Militants shelled Ukrainian military positions near Novhorodske and Zaitseve from different kinds of weapons
