REUTERS
Russian-backed militants have been firing weapons banned from the front under the Minsk peace agreements on a number of towns and villages in the direction of Donetsk since yesterday evening, the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation reported on Facebook page on Thursday.
According to the report, from 1800 last night the militants fired mortars and artillery every hour on the town of Avdiivka, the mine of Butivka, the villages of Opytne, Krasnohorivka, Kamianka, Starohnativka, Pisky, Vodiane, Marinka.
"The militants fired an anti-tank missile system on the village of Hranitne," the press center said.
The militants also fired mortars, grenade launchers, machine guns and small arms on the villages of Luhanske, Lozove, Kirove, Leninske, and the town of Maiorsk.
In the area of Mariupol, the militants fired artillery from the village of Sakhanka on the village of Shyrokyne.
"And in the direction of Luhansk, they fired on the villages of Shastya and Stanytsia Luhanska," the report says.
"During this period, the Ukrainian army recorded 16 reconnaissance overflights by enemy drones," the ATO headquarters said.