Six Ukrainian soldiers have been wounded in combat over the last 24 hours.
Colonel Oleksandr Motuzyanyk, a military spokesman for the Presidential Administration, reported that Ukrainian positions had been attacked by snipers and shelled with 82 mm mortars.
According to this morning's ATO Press Centre report, there were 29 attacks over the 24-hour period before 6 am today.
The 'defence ministry' of the self-declared Donetsk People's Republic (DNR) claimed meanwhile that Ukrainian forces had carried out 11 attacks over the last day.
Overall, the DNR claimed that 60 120 mm and 47 82 mm mortar shells had been fired onto separatist-held territory near Donetsk and Gorlovka, as well as the village of Kominternovo, east of Mariupol.
-- Pierre Vaux