Photo from Ukraine's Defense Ministry
Russia's hybrid military forces have mounted four targeted attacks on Ukrainian positions in Donbas, eastern Ukraine, since the beginning of Wednesday, January 10; the Ukrainian army has returned fire once, according to the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) Headquarters.
The weapons used by Ukrainian troops to repel the attack are not banned under the Minsk peace agreements, the ATO HQ said on Facebook in an update as of 18:00 local time on January 10.
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The hot spot in the Luhansk sector is the Svitlodarska Duha buldge. In particular, the enemy lobbed over thirty 120mm and 82 mm mortar shells into areas near the Ukrainian-controlled village of Novoluhanske. Militants actively used automatic grenade launchers and large-caliber machine guns near that village.
What is more, Ukrainian troops that are defending the village of Luhanske repeatedly came under 82mm mortar fire in the daytime.
The enemy also attacked Ukrainian positions outside the village of Verkhniotoretske in the Donetsk sector, using grenade launchers.