The Ukrainian army operation press center said on Aug. 26 that 92 attacks of the militants on Ukrainian army positions, including nine by use of artillery, 37 by use of mortars and 19 by use of grenade launchers.
The militants fired 120mm mortars on a Ukrainian stronghold in Pisky and twice attacked Opytne, while army positions in Avdiyivka came under attack from 122mm artillery, the press center wrote on Facebook.
The militants’ 152mm artillery and grenade launchers shelled Ukrainian defense lines in Troitske and 122mm artillery attacked Maryinka at about 9 p.m., it said, adding that artillery hit army positions in Druha Novoselivka in the evening. The militants’ armored personnel carriers attacked army positions in Opytne and Krasnohorivka at about midnight.
The Ukrainian army observed three attacks on its positions by the militants’ mortars in Starohnativka at around 7 p.m. and a clash near Novotroitske at 7.50 p.m.
Stanytsia Luhanska found itself in the epicenter of the confrontations in the Luhansk region in the evening. Ukrainian positions came under several attacks from the militants’ grenade launchers, mortars and large-caliber machine guns.
The Luhansk region military-civilian administration said that a low-pressure gas pipeline and a power line were damaged in the shelling of Stanytsia Luhanska.
The gas pipeline was repaired by the morning, the administration wrote on Facebook.
