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Ukrainian military positions in Donbas were shelled 29 times on Saturday, September 24, the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) headquarters reported on Facebook on Sunday morning.

Twelve shell attacks were recorded in the Donetsk sector, it said. Donbas militants fired 82mm mortars on the village of Pesky and the town of Avdiyivka and 120mm mortars on the Butivka coal mine, according to the report. Also, grenades, machineguns and small arms were fired near Avdiyivka, Verkhniotoretske and Novhorodske. A group of snipers operated in the Avdiyivka area.

Five ceasefire breaches were recorded in the Luhansk sector. Militants in the villages of Novozvanivka and Novo-Oleksandrivka fired grenade launchers and small arms. The village of Stanytsa Luhanska came under provocative fire from under-barrel grenade launchers.

Twelve ceasefire breaches were recorded in the Mariupol sector. Near the town of Maryinka and the villages of Novotroitske, Taramchuk, Pavlopil, Starohnativka and Shyrokyne, militants fired small arms, machineguns and grenade launchers. A group of snipers operated near Maryinka.

Also, two unmanned aerial vehicles were spotted over the military operation zone in on Saturday, the report says.