One Ukrainian serviceman was killed and two more were injured in the eastern Ukraine in the past 24 hours, Ukrainian Defense Ministry spokesperson Andriy Lysenko said.
“One soldier was killed and two more were injured in the hostilities over the past day. In addition, a serviceman injured earlier died at the hospital in Zaporizhia,” Lysenko told at a the press briefing in Kyiv on Nov. 4.
One of the servicemen was injured in the village of Semyhirya in the Bakhmutivka district of the Donetsk region, the other suffered injury and another one died in an attack on Avdiyivka, according to Lysenko.
The militants fired at Popasna and Stanytsia Luhanska districts, Orikhove and Triokhizbenka in the Luhansk sector, Lysenko said. Seven shelling incidents were reported, including one using heavy weapons.
The militants fired 60 mortar shots on Ukrainian army positions in Avdiyivka industrial zone in the Donetsk Oblast, Lysenko said, adding that every shelling incident lasted for 30 minutes. A 15-minute combat engagement was reported from Semyhirya near Svitlodarsk. In all, the Donetsk sector saw six shelling incidents, including five by use of heavy weapons, within the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry said.
The militants used mortars and sniper rifles near Krasnohorivka and in the Pavlopil-Shyrokyne sector in the Mariupol region. According to Ukrainian Intelligence Service, the Ukrainian army had to fire back.
Overall, 17 shelling incidents, including four involving heavy weapons, occurred over the day.
