Russian forces and their proxies fired 20 times at Ukraine-controlled positions in the past 24 hours, while employing an alarming number of 30 surveillance drones over Kyiv-controlled territory in war-torn eastern Ukraine.
The drones
probed mainly southern Donetsk and northern Luhansk oblasts. Ukraine’s military managed
to shoot down one in Luhansk, Andriy Lysenko, military spokesperson,
said at a briefing in Kyiv on April 11.
“Over
the past 24 hours, no Ukrainian servicemen were killed or injured as a result
of hostilities,” Lysenko said. “The
situation in the east, however, remains ‘stably tense.”
The most
intense shelling took place in the area of Opytne and Avdiivka in Donetsk
Oblast, with grenade launchers, mortars and small arms being employed by Kremlin
forces. The city of Pisky, near what was the Donetsk Airport on the northern
edge of the city, was shelled twice in the past day with 120-millimeter mortars.
Andriy Lysenko, Ukraine military spokesperson.
Russia’s
war against Ukraine has claimed the lives of at least 6,098 people and left
another 15,437 wounded, the United Nations conservatively estimates. Daily,
attacks persist upon Ukraine’s army with at least 2,053 servicemen having
been killed in the last year, according to data compiled by the Kyiv Post. At least 13 Ukrainian soldiers were killed through
March 20–April 6, after a third cease-fire was brokered between both sides in
Minsk on Feb. 12.
The latest cease-fire came into force on February 15 after leaders of Russia, Ukraine,
France and Germany signed the truce agreement in Belarus. However, the killing remains,
according to daily reports by the Ukrainian military.
Lysenko,
Ukraine’s military spokesperson, has during his daily press briefings said that
said Russia-backed forces continue to violate the third cease-fire, especially with attacks near the Azov Sea coastal city of Mariupol, Donetsk Oblasts’s, second largest city.
Kyiv
Post staff writer Olena Gordiienko can be reached at [email protected].
