Ukrainian Military emphasize reducing the number of attacks in the Donbass and report that their positions last night had been attacked 18 times.

" The situation in the region ATO, you can say, stabilized, has a tendency to reduce the number and intensity of attacks. 18. 00 (19. 00 GMT) yesterday to 07. 00 (08. 00 MSK) had 18 fire, " he said on air of the TV channel official authorized special operations security forces Leonid Matyukhin, adding that the total number of shelling their positions for the day reached 75.

according to him, the fire was subjected to, for example, the position of the Ukrainian military far from populated areas, Happiness, Stramigioli, Franchuk, Arkhangelsk, Lenin, Thin, Marinka, Sands.

before the Ministry of defense of the self-proclaimed Donetsk national Republic (DND) said that last night the Ukrainian Military fired on the positions of the militia and settlements of the Republic 72 times.

The Ukrainian authorities began in April in the Donbass military operation against dissatisfied with the February coup d'etat in the region. According to the summary data of the United Nations, victims of the conflict were more than 4, 7 thousands of civilians, more than 10 thousand were injured.

Brokered by Russia and the OSCE agreed in Minsk truce From 5 September. However, the parties many times accused of another in violation of the agreements. On the morning of December 9, in the Donbass began a consistent militias and security forces through the mediation of the OSCE another truce. On January 9, the intensity of attacks in the region has increased.

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