Positions of Ukrainian troops were shelled 94 times leaving six servicemen injured in the Donbas conflict area in the past 24 hours, the press service of the Ukrainian military headquarters said.
“Five of our soldiers were injured and one traumatized,” the Ukrainian headquarters said on its Facebook page early on Feb. 6.
In the Mariupol sector, 152mm and 122mm artillery systems shelled Berdianske, Lebedynske, and Talakivka. Troyitske, Krasnohorivka, Pavlopil, Maryinka, Vodiane, Shyrokyne and Hnutove were shelled by mortars, it said. Krasnohorivka, Maryinka, Lebedynske, and Novotroyitske came under fire from grenade launchers and small arms. Snipers fired on Hnutove and Pavlopil. An infantry fighting vehicle and a tank opened fire on Shyrokyne and Krasnohorivka, the headquarters said.
In the Luhansk sector, Russia-backed separatists used mortars to shell Katerynivka, Popasna, and Novozvanivka. Militants fired grenade launchers and small arms against Ukrainian positions in Krymske, Novo-Oleksandrivka, and Troyitske. Snipers opened fire on Krymske and Zhovte, it said.
In the Donetsk sector, Kyiv registered fire from tanks, 120mm and 82mm mortars, grenade launchers, and small arms, which were used against Ukrainian positions near Pisky, Avdiyivka, Kamyanka, Zaitseve, Opytne, Novhorodske, Zalizne and Luhanske. A sniper fired on Nevelske, and an infantry fighting vehicle on Luhanske.
Luhansk Military-Civil Administration said that separatists opened fire near the line of separation 12 times in the past 24 hours. As a result, one Ukrainian serviceman was injured, it said.
“Last night, a Ukrainian serviceman was injured as a result of shelling from automatic and anti-tank grenade launchers, large-caliber machineguns and small arms near the village of Novooleksandrivka in the Popasna district. Fire was opened along the line of separation 12 times in the past 24 hours,” Luhansk Military-Civil Administration said in a statement published in Facebook on Feb. 6.
Separatists opened fire five times, using 82mm mortars, automatic and anti-tank grenade launchers, large-caliber machineguns and small arms against Ukrainian positions near Popasna and the villages of Katerynivka, Troitske and Novozvanivka, the administration said.
Militants fired 82mm mortars, automatic and antitank grenade launchers, large-caliber machineguns and small arms seven times in the past 24 hours, as well as weapons mounted on fighting infantry vehicles, trying to hit the villages of Krymske and Lopaskyne in the Luhansk region’s Novoaidar district, it said.
