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Ukrainian positions in eastern Ukraine were shelled on Monday, the press center of the Ukrainian military operation has reported.

“The occupation forces delivered fire with 82-millimeter mortars in the Mariupol direction in the area of the town of Vodyane. Shyrokyne was targeted in a gunfire attack,” the press center said in report released on May 18 evening.

It said that in the Donetsk direction fire was delivered with automatic grenade launchers and fire arms in Pisky and at the Butivka mine, and with large-caliber machine guns on Opytne.

In the Luhansk direction large caliber machine guns and firearms were used at Novotoshkivske and Schastia, the Ukrainian military claimed.

“In the Troitske sector our border guards and reconnaissance units got into action with an enemy subversive-reconnaissance group,” the press center said.