Donetsk, Mar 12 - DAN. Ukrainian armed formations violated the ceasefire on the contact line with the Donetsk People’s Republic 11 times over the past 24 hours, the DPR Office at the Joint Centre for Control and Coordination (JCCC) reported on Thursday.

“Over the past 24 hours, Ukrainian armed formations violated the ceasefire 11 times expending 125 rounds of ammunition,” the report said.

Fire was delivered at the areas of the Trudovskaya Colliery, Alexandrovka and Zhabichevo settlements, the Mikhailovka village and the city airport on the Donetsk axis, the Golmovskiy settlement on the Gorlovka axis and the Petrovskoye village outskirts on the Mariupol axis, the JCCC said.

On Wednesday, six houses were damaged in Golmovskiy in the north of the frontline Gorlovka in shelling by Ukrainian forces.

The enemy used 82mm and 120mm 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.

In the previous reporting period, Ukrainian army units violated the ceasefire 21 times firing more than 200 rounds of ammunition at DPR areas.*jk