Russia's hybrid military forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in Donbas six times in the past 24 hours, with one Ukrainian soldier reported as killed in action (KIA) as a result of mortar shelling, according to the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation Headquarters.
The second half of the last day, starting at about 17:30 Kyiv time, saw no ceasefire violations, while Russian occupation troops breached Minsk accords early afternoon.
"The enemy continued to use mortars of various calibers, blatantly violating the Minsk agreements, [firing] not only on the positions of the Ukrainian defenders but also toward an occupied front-line settlement," the press center said.
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In the Donetsk sector, the occupiers used 82mm mortars on the Ukrainian positions near the village of Novotroyitske. "Here, to provocatively accuse the ATO forces, they alternately led mortar fire on our fortified positions and on the infrastructure of the temporarily-occupied town of Dokuchaivsk," the report says.