Situation Update, east of Ukraine as of morning, August 02, 2017

According to the press centre of the ‘anti-terror’ operation (ATO) HQ, the enemy has violated the ceasefire for 34 times over the past 24 hours.

The enemy used grenade launchers near Butivka mine, mortars, grenade launchers, and small arms near Avdiivka, 120 mm mortars, anti-air mount, and heavy machineguns against the ATO positions near Troitske, mortars near Maiorsk, Verkhniotoretske, and Zaitseve.

Militants shelled the Ukrainian positions near Novooleksandrivka, Novotoshkivske, and Stanytsia Luhanska with small arms. An enemy’s sniper targeted the Ukrainian positions near Novozvanivka.

The Russian proxies used small arms near Lebedynske, grenade launchers near Talakivka.

Yesterday morning, militants shelled the residential quarters of Vodiane using heavy weaponry — reactive multiple launch systems. Fortunately, there are no casualties among civilians.

Bandits blasted engineer munitions near Staromykhailivka to imitate shelling from Ukrainian government controlled territory by the Ukrainian army. The enemy tries to discredit the Ukrainian soldiers on the eve of the meeting of the Minsk trilateral contact group.

One Ukrainian soldier was killed and one soldier was wounded.