Anatoliy Stelmakh, ATO spokesman. Photo by ATO
On October 25, ATO [Anti-Terrorist Operation] spokesman Anatoliy Stelmakh reported that in the previous reporting period there were 15 attacks from Russia-backed forces.
Two Ukrainian soldiers were killed and three were wounded.
Tryokhizbenka was also attacked with small arms.
On the Donetsk line, starting at 19:30, militants fired on Avdeyevka, Zaytsevo and Luganskoye with heavy machine guns, grenade-launchers and small arms.
Tryokhizbenka was also attacked with small arms.
In the evening, the ATO reported that militants had fired on Gnutovo as well as Lebedinskoye and Vodyanoye with machine guns and 82-mortars, respectively.
They also fired on Peski and Avdeyevka with machine guns and small arms.
The Ukrainian JCCC also reported that Russia-backed militants fired heavy machine guns on the Gorlovka line near the Mayorsk checkpoint at Zaytsevo, endangering civilian lives. Bullets penetrated tents set up as a warm-up center for people traveling in the area, causing some to collapse.
Militants declared Sedovo a "closed zone" and did not allow OSCE monitors there, Liga.net reported.
Residences were damaged on Akhmatova St., no. 18, in Aleksandrovka on Lenina St. nos. 2 and 19 and in Kominternovo on Kirova St, no. 2.
-- Catherine A. Fitzpatrick