One Ukrainian soldier was wounded in action near the town of Avdiyivka in Donbas on Feb. 12, Ukrainian defense ministry speaker Oleksandr Motuzianyk said in an update for the past 24 hours.
“There were no killed in action in the past day as a result of shelling, but one soldier was wounded near Avdiyivka,” he said at a briefing in Kyiv on Feb. 13.
According to him, Ukraine army was attacked 67 times on Feb. 12.
“Only four of the attacks were in the Luhansk sector, namely it was Popasniansky district. One barrage occurred in the morning, others were in the evening, between 21:00 and 23:00 local time. Machine guns and grenade launchers were used to attack Ukrainian positions. There was no fighting along the front section between the Russian border and the town of Zolote yesterday,” he said.
The Donetsk sector saw 21 attacks on Ukrainian army positions. Among them there were six mortar barrages. “As was the case before, enemy activity focuses on Avdiyivka. Yesterday fighting there lasted for about eight hours with breaks. The adversaries used mortars,” Motuzianyk said.
To the north, the area near the villages of Verkhniotoretske and Novoselivka came under mortar fire four times. Small arms were also used. Also, Russia-backed separatists violated the ceasefire along the Svitlodarska bulge outside the occupied town of Horlivka and near the ruined Donetsk airport.
“In particular, the villages of Troyitske and Kamianka came under sniper fire, while Butivka coal mine was attacked by an enemy infantry fighting vehicle,” he said.
Most of the attacks were recorded in the Mariupol sector, and five out of 42 there were mortar shelling.
“The enemy continued firing on Ukrainian position almost along the entire front line, occasionally using heavy weapons. At least 27 mines were lobbied on our positions yesterday. The largest number of armed incidents occurred in the town of Krasnohorivka, the villages of Novotroyitske, Hnutove, and Vodiane. Militants start shooting before dawn and their activity increases significantly in the evening,” he said.
