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Regions in northern, western and southern Donetsk remain under Ukrainian artillery fire, according to Russian language news accounts.
A news release on the website of the Donetsk ministry of defense said that Ukrainian violations of the ceasefire were somewhat reduced. Ukrainian artillery struck rebel positions in western Donetsk city including at Kievskiy and Kuibyshevskiy districts of Donetsk city, the Donetsk airport and at Spartak.
In the Telmanovskiy district, Ukrainian artillery hit rebel troop positions, following the end of a short, but intense fight between rebel forces and Ukrainian military units on Saturday. Ukrainian artillery also hit Sahanka in far southern Donetsk.
The Ukrainian ministry of defense said in its daily briefing that rebel forces fired on Ukrainian troops a total of 99 times on Monday with artillery, including the use of 120mm mortar and 152mm artillery on the western Donetsk city suburb of Avdievka.
According to the korrespondent.net report, rebel artillery also struck rebel positions at Starognatovka and Bogdanovka near the Mariupol defense zone.
Once again, residential sectors of Gorlovka were struck by Ukrainian artillery. A Gorlovka city official identified as Roman Khramenkov said that one residence was set afire by the shelling. Two unidentified wounded were reported near Gorlovka city hall.
Rebel media say Ukrainians are using 122mm rocket artillery, mortar and tank gunfire on their nearly daily attack on Gorlovka. Artillery is originating from Dzerzhinsk, Maiyorsk and Artemovsk, according to a post from the VKontakte page named Self Defense Gorlovka.
Ukrainian media also reported two skirmishes between rebel forces and Ukrainian naval infantry forces in the former demilitarized town of Shirokino.
Somewhere in Lugansk
A brief fire fight took place between a Lugansk rebel armored rifle platoon and a Ukrainian tank. The unit attempted to advance over open ground with the armored vehicles running abreast, when the Ukrainians decide to send in a tank. A few minutes later two BTR APCs were burning, and, apparently, the rebels destroyed the tank with AT rockets.
The video was posted on the internet. I saw it on tsnesor.net, and it was advertised as a recent video. But Russian journalist Boris Rozhin said the video was shot last summer.
Chris Covert writes about foreign military issues for Rantburg.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com and on Twitter. You can read past articles about the 2014 war in southeastern Ukraina by clicking here.
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