Ukrainian army casualties near Shyrokyne have amounted to one dead and four injured in the past 24 hours.
“A National Guard member, born in the Donetsk region in 1987, was killed by artillery fire near Shyrokyne,. Two National Guard members, from the Zhytomyr and Sumy regions, were then injured. During the mortar shelling in the evening, two military servicemen, one from the Cherkassy region and the other from the Chernihiv region, were injured in a mine explosion,” the city of Mariupol reported on its website.
This morning militants resumed shelling of Ukrainian positions, said a spokesman for Sector M, Dmytro Horbunov.
“At 4 a.m. this morning the shelling resumed, with use of an 82 millimeter mortar launcher. At around 7 a.m. the shelling was already carried out with grenade launchers. At this point, there are no casualties among the Ukrainian Armed Forces and National Guard personnel,” the spokesman said.
Yesterday the positions of the anti-terror forces were shelled 16 times, the spokesman said. One shell attack occurred near the village of Chermalyk in the morning, with use of an 82 millimeter mortar launcher; another attack, with Donetsk militias using small arms, took place near Gnutovo. The other 14 shell attacks were carried out against Shyrokyne. Six of them used 120-millimeter and higher-caliber artillery. Mortar launchers and various types of small arms were used during the shell attacks.
