Donetsk, Jun 30 - DAN. Ukrainian armed formations violated the ceasefire six times over the past 24 hours, the Donetsk People’s Republic Office at the Joint Centre for Control and Coordination reported on Tuesday.

“Over the past 24 hours, Ukrainian armed formations violated the ceasefire six times expending 26 rounds of ammunition,” the report said.

The enemy used 82mm mortars, 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 Shakhta Trudovskaya, Alexandrovka and Zhabichevo settlements on the Donetsk axis and the Shakhta Gagarina settlement area on the Gorlovka axis, the JCCC said.

A house caught fire in the Alexandrovka neighbourhood in western Donetsk as the area was shelled by Ukrainian forces on Monday. In Shakhta Trudovskaya, two houses in Lugovskogo Street and a transmission line were damaged in Ukrainian army strikes. Thirty-six customers were left without electricity.

In the previous reporting period, Ukrainian army units violated the ceasefire four times firing more than 45 rounds of ammunition at DPR areas.*jk