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Both in the daytime and the evening hours, the enemy’s efforts were mainly focused on the Avdiyivka’s “Promzona,” the strategically important industrial area in town. Militants fired on Ukrainian strongholds in the area twice from various types of grenade launchers, heavy machine guns, and small arms. Ukrainian troops returned fire, forcing the enemy to return to observing ceasefire.

At about 23:00, Russian occupation forces launched seven mines of a 82mm caliber near Pisky and also fired from weapons installed on an infantry fighting vehicle near Zaitseve.

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On the Luhansk line, Ukrainian positions were shelled once, near the village of Novotoshkivske, at about 23:00.

In general, over the past day, Russian-occupation forces violated the ceasefire 14 times. In nine cases, the Ukrainian troops returned fire.

As a result of the fighting, two Ukrainian soldiers were wounded.