Russian-backed separatists have already attacked Ukrainian positions 42 times in eastern Ukraine on March 13, which resulted in wounding one Ukrainian soldier, the press center of the Ukrainian military has reported.
“Forty-two attacks on the Ukrainian armed forces’ positions have been recorded since the beginning of the day. One Ukrainian defender has been wounded,” the Ukrainian military said in its update on Facebook on March 13 evening.
Banned 122mm artillery systems were used to shell positions near the village of Pavlopil in the Mariupol sector in Donetsk region. Positions near the villages of Shyrokyne, Vodiane, and Chermalyk were attacked with the use of small arms, large-caliber machine guns and grenade launchers. The village of Novotroyitske was under sniper fire.
Large-caliber machine guns, grenade launchers and 82mm mortars were used to fire on Ukrainian positions near the towns of Avdiyivka and Svitlodarsk, and the villages of Opytne, Verkhniotoretske, Zaitseve, Luhanske, and Novhorodske in the Donetsk sector. Avdiyivka and Butivka coal mine were attacked by a tank.
Illegal armed formations in the Luhansk sector fired on Ukrainian positions near the village of Krymske and the town of Popasna, using grenade launchers of various systems, and then added 82mm and 120mm mortars. Small arms and anti-tank grenade launchers were used to fire on Ukrainian troops stationed near the village of Novo-Oleksandrivka.
