Donetsk, Dec 12 - DAN. Ukrainian army units violated the ceasefire nine times over the past 24 hours, the Donetsk People’s Republic Office at the Joint Centre for Control and Coordination reported on Thursday.

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

Strikes were delivered at the Trudovskaya Colliery, Mineralnoye and Staromikhailovka settlelments, the Yasinovataya town, the Donetsk airport area and the Spartak village (Donetsk axis), the Gagarin Colliery and Golmovskiy settlements (Gorlovka axis) and the Kominternovo village  (Mariupol axis).

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.

In the previous reporting period, Ukrainian army units violated the ceasefire 12 times firing more than 50 rounds of ammunition at DPR areas.*jk