Donetsk, May 23 - DAN. Ukrainian forces violated the ceasefire 62 times over the past 24 hours using multiple launch rocket systems, DPR Operations Command said on Tuesday.

“Ukrainian army violated the ceasefire 62 times over the past 24 hours using MLRS, artillery, tank guns, mortars, anti-tank guided missiles, infantry fighting vehicle cannons, grenade launchers and small arms,” it said.

Overall 19 DPR settlements came under fire and least five houses were damaged.

On Monday evening, Ukrainian forces delivered a massive strike at Yasinovataya, Yakovlevka and Spartak settlements and Donetsk airport using artillery, tank guns and mortars. A woman was wounded in the shelling, a DPR Operations Command source told Donetsk News Agency.

She was hospitalised with shrapnel wound and multiple fractures.

Also on Monday evening, Ukrainian forces shelled Avdeyevka Coke Plant; a fire broke out on its premises. *jk