Donetsk, Mar 24 - DAN. Ukrainian armed formations violated the ceasefire five times over the past 24 hours, the Donetsk People’s Republic Office at the Joint Centre for Control and Coordination reported on Tuesday.

“Over the past 24 hours, Ukrainian forces violated the ceasefire five times expending 55 rounds of ammunition,” the report said.

Strikes were delivered at the areas of the Zhabichevo, Trudovskaya Colliery and Oktyabrskaya Colliery settlements on the Donetsk axis and the Gagarin Colliery settlement on the Gorlovka axis, the JCCC said.

The enemy used 120mm and 82mm mortars, grenade launchers and high calibre small arms. The amount of expended ammunition of calibre up to 12.7mm is not added to overall daily statistics.

In the previous reporting period, Kiev army units fired 17 rounds of ammunition at DPR areas.*jk