DONETSK. March 24 (Interfax) - The Ukrainian army has committed over 50 truce violations in the past 24 hours. Two militiamen have been killed, according to the Defense Ministry of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR).
"In all, 51 attacks by the Ukrainian army, including 41 in the Donetsk sector and five in each of the Horlivka and Mariupol sectors, have been recorded over the past 24 hours," a ministry spokesman told the Donetsk news agency on Tuesday.
"The attacks on the republic's territory killed two militiamen and injured five," he said.
"There have been 35 mortar attacks, four tank attacks and twelve incidents by use of small arms," he said.
In turn, the Ukrainian army accused the militia of eight shooting incidents overnight.
"An attack of the enemy's 120mm mortars on Pisky started at 9:35 p.m. and lasted for more than an hour, and the attack on Avdiivka began at 10 p.m. The same populated areas reported attacks using small arms and grenade launchers overnight," army representatives wrote on Facebook.
The militia used machineguns in Leninske in the Artemivsk sector and small arms in Shyrokyne in the Mariupol sector at 3:15 a.m.
The intensity of attacks on army positions reduced last night, the army said.