Separatists attack Ukraine 61 times in past day

In the Donetsk sector, the militants fired 122mm artillery systems on the Ukrainian fortified positions in the villages of Pisky and Zaitseve. "The enemy fired banned 120mm mortars on the town of Avdiyivka and the village of Novhorodske, as well as rocket-propelled grenades on our positions in the town of Maryinka, and the villages of Luhanske, Pisky, and Troyitske," the report says. In the Mariupol sector, the situation was most tense near the village of Shyrokyne where the Russian-backed occupiers used 122mm artillery systems, 120mm and 82mm mortars, grenade launchers, heavy machine guns and small arms. They also fired 120mm mortars on the village of Vodiane and the town of Krasnohorivka. In Luhansk region, the enemy fired small arms on the Ukrainian positions near the villages of Novo-Oleksandrivka and Novotoshkivske.