REUTERS
The combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine 69 times in the past 24 hours, the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) wrote on Facebook early Friday.
The militants fired banned weapons on ATO forces at night. They fired grenade launchers, heavy machine guns and small arms on the Ukrainian fortified positions in the villages of Pisky and Opytne, as well as the towns of Krasnohorivka and Maryinka.
"The situation was tense in the area of Svitlodarsk, where the militants fired heavy machine guns on the Ukrainian army positions near the villages of Troyitske and Zaitseve, as well as a grenade launcher near the village of Mayorsk," the report says.
In the Mariupol sector, the pro-Russian mercenaries fired from mortars and an anti-tank missile system on our outpost near the village of Talakivka, as well as a 120mm mortar near the village of Starohnativka.
The enemy fired an automatic grenade launcher near the town of Zolote in the Luhansk sector.