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Kyiv, April 1, 2016.<\/strong> <\/em>Combat actions in the ATO zone in eastern Ukraine intensified again yesterday. \u201cAdversary deployed several artillery batteries to the contact line and massively shelled positions of ATO forces. Fire was conducted from hostile artillery of the 122-mm and 152-mm caliber \u2013 these are howitzers D-30 and MSTA-B. Over the last day occupants fired over 100 artillery shells and over 370 mortar mines. A total weight of warheads of the above ammunition is over 6.5 tons,\u201d said Colonel Andriy Lysenko, spokesman of Presidential Administration of Ukraine on ATO-related issues at a press briefing at Ukraine Crisis Media Center.<\/p>\n

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In the Donetsk sector combat actions continue along the entire contact line. A total of 47 hostile attacks occurred over the last day, each third attack was made with the use of heavy weapons. Most tense situation is observed in Zaitseve and Avdiivka, combat actions lasted there incessantly. Colonel Lysenko noted that most powerful attacks with the use of artillery and mortars took place in the morning and as the darkness settled down. Near Luhanske militants fired upon the positions of ATO forces from an infantry fighting vehicle. \u201cOver 50 shells were fired from a 73-mm howitzer mounted on the armored vehicle over a half of an hour,\u201d noted the ATO spokesman.<\/p>\n

In the Luhansk sector militant groups violated ceasefire four times in Popasnyansky district between 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. \u201cOccupants used mortars, anti-aircraft mount and other types of weapons in course of their attacks. In the result of the militant aggressive actions work of the recently launched Zolote checkpoint [across the contact line] was suspended,\u201d said Colonel Lysenko. In the Mariupol sector there were 26 hostile attacks, nearly each second one was made from heavy weapons. Thus militants attacked the positions of Ukrainian troops in Maryinka, Novotroyitske as well as between Hnutove and Shyrokyne, mortars were frequently used in these attacks. ATO forces were returning fire.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a result of the hostile attacks in Maryinka equipment of a repair brigade that was working to fix the gas pipeline was damaged, works were suspended,\u201d noted the ATO spokesman. He reminded that due to the frequent militant attacks repair works are being interrupted from time to time, 27 thousand residents of Maryinka and Krasnohorivka are still cut off the gas supply. \u201cIn Maryinka as a result from a hostile attack a residential building was damaged. There are no casualties,\u201d added Colonel Lysenko.<\/p>\n

One Ukrainian serviceman was killed in action over the last day and eight servicemen were wounded in action. According to the information by the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine\u2019s Defense Ministry militants of the so-called \u201c1st army corps of the DPR\u2019\u201d had four fighters killed in action and six wounded in action over the past several days. \u201cThus two militants of the so-called \u201c5th motor-rifle brigade\u201d deployed to Donetsk were killed in action and three militants were wounded in action; one militant of the so-called \u201c3rd motor-rifle brigade\u201d deployed to Horlivka was killed in action and two were wounded in action; one militant of the so-called \u201c9th assault motor-rifle regiment of naval infantry\u201d deployed to Novoazovsk was killed in action and one was wounded in action,\u201d reported Colonel Lysenko. He added that five more fighters from the above regiment tried to desert: \u201cone fled to Russia, another one was detained at the border by the internal troops unit of the Russian Federation, three more fighters were detained by locals during their attempt to steal a car.\u201d Ukrainian intelligence also reports that in the so-called \u201c2nd army corps of the LPR\u2019\u201d \u201cthe cases of open disobedience by mid-level commanders became more frequent. Three days ago a commission of the Center for Territorial troops of the Southern Military District of the Russian Federation Armed Forces based in Novocherkassk arrived to the so-called “2nd army corps\u201d to investigate the incidents,\u201d said Colonel Lysenko.<\/p>\n

The ATO spokesman also said that law enforcement staff seized an RPG-29 from a resident of Avdiivka yesterday. \u201cHe faces up to seven years in prison for illegal possession of weapons,\u201d he recalled emphasizing strict liability terms foreseen by the Ukrainian law.<\/p>\n

Colonel Lysenko also presented the statistics of combat actions intensity in ATO over March 2016. \u201cA total of 1549 hostile attacks and combat engagements took place in Donbas over the period in question. Thirty nine of them happened in the Luhansk sector, 1200 in the Donetsk sector and 310 in the Mariupol sector. Each fourth attack is conducted from heavy weapons including mortars, howitzers, tanks or a multiple rocket launcher systems,\u201d noted the ATO spokesman.<\/p>\n

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