DONETSK. April 11 (Interfax) - The Ukrainian military has committed 64 ceasefire violations in Donbas in the past 24 hours, the Defense Ministry of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) said.
"The Armed Forces of Ukraine have breached the truce 64 times over the past 24 hours. A total of 15 populated localities of the republic have been shelled by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which have used artillery, tanks, mortars, BMP [infantry fighting vehicles] and BTR [armored personnel carriers], anti-aircraft guns, grenade launchers and small arms," a DPR Defense Ministry spokesman told reporters.
Two houses were damaged in the Petrovskyi district and another two in the town of Dokuchayivsk as a result of the strikes, he said.
For his part, Eduard Basurin of the DPR Defense Ministry said that one militiaman had been wounded.
"One serviceman of the DPR militia suffered a wound as a result of attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces," he told reporters on Tuesday.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces continue to use weapons banned by the Minsk Agreements in the Avdiivka industrial zone, Dokuchayivsk, Sakhanka, the airport area and the Petrovskyi district of Donetsk, he said.
Basurin also rejected Kyiv's accusations that militia had allegedly shelled Maryinka and accused the Ukrainian side of opening fire on Donetsk.
"As far as Maryinka is concerned, they accused us of an attack, evacuated a school, which resumed full operation only half an hour later. And at that very moment they fired grenade launchers and mortars on the Petrovskyi district [of Donetsk]," Basurin said when commenting on Kyiv's accusations that the DPR militia had allegedly shelled a school in Maryinka on Tuesday morning.
Kyiv, for its part, said that militia forces had also shelled Ukrainian positions in Donbas 64 times over the past 24 hours, wounding five Ukrainian servicemen.
In the Mariupol sector, 122mm artillery, 120mm mortars, grenade launchers, large-caliber machineguns and infantry fighting vehicle weapons were used to shell Vodyane, the press center of the headquarters of Kyiv's military operation in the southeast of Ukraine said on Facebook.
It said also that the militia fired 120mm mortars and grenade launchers upon Ukrainian military positions in Novotroyitske and 82mm mortars, grenade launchers of different systems and large-caliber machineguns upon those near Berezove, Maryinka and Krasnohorivka.
The militia also fired anti-tank grenade launchers against Ukrainian positions near Hnutove and Hranitne, large-caliber machineguns and infantry fighting vehicle weapons against Hnutove and Talakivka, and small arms upon Shyrokyne, the press service said. Snipers were also targeting the area near Maryinka, it said.
In the Donetsk sector, 120mm mortars and large-caliber machineguns were used against the Butovka mine, the press service said. The militia also used 82mm mortars, grenade launchers of different systems and large-caliber machineguns against Avdiivka and Opytne. Grenade launchers and large-caliber machineguns were fired on Ukrainian positions near Zaitseve, Pisky and Luhanske, and large-caliber machineguns and small arms against those near Kamyanka, it said.
In the Luhansk sector, militia forces used 82mm mortars to shell Krymske and Katerynivka, fired grenade launchers upon Valuiske, Stanytsia Luhanska and the village of Donets, and used small arms against Ukrainian positions near Lobacheve, Kyiv said.