Donetsk, Feb 22 - DAN. Ukrainian army units fired more than 160 rounds of ammunition at Donetsk People's Republic frontline areas over the past 24 hours, head of DPR mission to the Joint Centre for Control and Coordination (JCCC) Ruslan Yakubov said on Thursday.

“Overall, Ukrainian army units expended 163 rounds of ammunition,” Yakubov said.

Trudovskiye neighbourhood in western Donetsk, Lozovoye neighbourhood outside Yasinovataya, Mikhailovka settlement in northern Gorlovka and Leninskoye and Sakhanka villages in DPR south came under Ukrainian forces fire, he added.

Earlier, DPR Operations Command said Ukrainian forces violated the ceasefire nine times over the past 24 hours.*jk