Russia's hybrid military forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in Donbas nine times in the past 24 hours, according to the press service of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) Headquarters.
The enemy shelled the Ukrainian positions seven times in the Luhansk sector. In the afternoon, the militants fired 152mm artillery systems on the defenders of the village of Luhanske. In the evening, the enemy used grenade launchers against the Ukrainian soldiers in this area of the contact line. Moreover, the Ukrainian fortified positions near the villages of Novoluhanske and Lozove came under 82mm mortar fire. The defenders of the village of Krymske were attacked with the use of small arms, while the Ukrainian fortified positions near Novoluhanske came under fire from infantry fighting vehicles' cannons and heavy machine guns.
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Taking into account that the enemy fire was quite dense in some sections of the contact line, the Ukrainian military returned fire three times.
Fortunately, no Ukrainian soldier was killed or wounded in action.