Donetsk, Jan 22 - DAN. Ukrainian army units violated the ceasefire 17 times over the past 24 hours firing more than 50 rounds of ammunition at the Donetsk People’s Republic territory, head of the DPR Office at the Joint Centre for Control and Coordination Ruslan Yakubov said on Tuesday.

“Over the past 24 hours, Ukrainian forces violated the ceasefire 17 times expending 54 rounds of ammunition,” Yakubov said.

The Donetsk airport area, the Volvo Centre and the Alexandrovka neighbourhood in the outskirts of Donetsk, Gorlovka and its adjacent villages of Zaitsevo, Dolomitnoye and Gagarin Colliery, Yasinovataya and the Kominternovo and Sakhanka villages in southern DPR were targeted with 120m mortars 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 forces violated the ceasefire 16 times firing 18 rounds of ammunition at the DPR.*jk