Donetsk, Jul 16 - DAN. Ukrainian forces violated the ceasefire six times over the past 24 hours, the DPR Office at the Joint Centre for Control and Coordination reported on Thursday.

“Over the past 24 hours, Ukrainian armed formations violated the ceasefire six times expending 39 rounds of ammunition,” the report said.

The enemy used 82mm mortars, infantry fighting vehicle cannons, 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.

Strikes were delivered at the areas of the Alexandrovka and Shakhta Trudovskaya settlements on the Donetsk axis and the Kulikovo and Kominternovo villages on the Mariupol axis, the JCCC said.

In the previous reporting period, Kiev army units fired 180 rounds of ammunition at DPR areas.*jk*pp