Separatists launch 33 attacks on government troops in east Ukraine

The hottest points overnight were Zaytseve, Maryinka, and Avdiivka. In the past 24 hours Russian-backed separatist forces shelled Ukrainian positions from large caliber mortar weapons. All forbidden under the Minsk agreement. No Ukrainian soldiers were killed, but four were wounded in the Donbas conflict zone over the last 24 hours, head of the ATO headquarters press-service, Colonel Oleksandr Motuzianyk said at a briefing on Thursday.