Provocation under Mariupol militants hung Ukrainian flag and fired on positions of the APU
Sunday, April 2, militants 15 times broke the silence mode, firing at positions of the Ukrainian military in the ATO zone. One serviceman of VSU was injured.
This is stated in the summary of the press center of the ATO headquarters as of 18: 00.
The most active rebels were on the Mariupol direction. From 120-mm mortars, rocket-propelled grenades of various systems, heavy machine guns and small weapons, they fired at positions of the Marines in Pavlopol. Rocket-propelled grenades, heavy machine guns and small arms fired at the Water.
On one of the houses occupied Sahanki the militants raised the flag of Ukraine and small arms fired at the Marines near Shirokino.
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On Donetsk the direction with the greatest number of attacks was recorded under the plant. Here the separatists used mortars caliber 82 mm heavy machine guns and small arms. From the easel anti-tank grenade fired at Novoselovka-2, from hand – held antitank grenade launcher- Zaitsev.
On Lugansk the direction from automatic grenade launchers, the militants shelled krymske.
“Despite armed provocations of the enemy, Ukrainian servicemen strictly adhere to the silence mode and return fire was not opened”, – stated in the headquarters of the ATO.
We will remind, on 29 March in Minsk Tripartite contact group agreed about the observance of the cease-fire regime in ATO area in the Donbas since April 1. Also from 1 April until memorial day, introduced an accelerated procedure of crossing the line of contact on the KPVV and extended their work in the morning and evening.
However, despite the reached agreements, the Russian occupation troops were still carried out provocative shelling positions of the Ukrainian armed forces. For the first day of “truce” the enemy 37 times violated mode “silence”. Four Ukrainian soldiers were injured.