Tensions persisted in the army operation zone in eastern Ukraine and gunfire became more intense in the past 24 hours.
“Some 50 attacks on Ukrainian army strongholds were observed, among them 33 in the Mariupol sector, 15 in the Donetsk zone and two in the Luhansk area,” the army operation press center wrote on Facebook on June 24 morning.
Ukrainian positions near Shyrokyne, Lybidinske, Chermalyk and Talakivka in the Mariupol sector came under mortar fire of the hostiles, while fortifications near Maryinka, Krasnohorivka, Novotroitske, Berezove and Hnutove were attacked by use of small arms, large-caliber machineguns and grenade launchers. Infantry combat vehicle weapons and an anti-aircraft missile system of the hostiles attacked strongholds in the vicinity of Talakivka and Vodiane.
The hostiles fired grenade launchers and 82mm mortars on Ukrainian army positions near Leninske and Verkhniotoretske in the Donetsk zone. The Svitlodarsk bulge was not quiet either: the militants fired large-caliber machineguns, automatic grenade launchers and, later on, mortars on Ukrainian positions near Mayorsk and Zaitseve. The hostiles used machineguns, various types of grenade launchers, mortars and self-propelled artillery systems on Ukrainian army strongholds in Avdiyivka. Heavy mortars shelled positions near Novoselivka 2.
The hostiles were firing automatic grenade launchers near Novozvanivka and Stepne in the Luhansk area.
