REUTERS
The combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine 16 times overnight, of which five times they directly hit the Ukrainian positions, the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) wrote on Facebook on Monday.
From 18:00 local time on November 15 to the morning on November 16, Russian-backed militants were firing on ATO forces in the Donetsk, Luhansk and Mariupol sectors.
"The militants were firing rocket-propelled grenades and small arms in the direction of the villages of Novhorodske, Opytne, Pisky, and the towns of Maryinka and Avdiyivka. At the same time, the invaders were firing mortars, rocket-propelled grenades, heavy machine guns and small arms on the villages of Novotoshkivka and Shyrokyne," the report says.