Over the past day, two Ukrainian soldiers were wounded in the zone of the antiterrorist operation in Donbas, the press officer of the Presidential Administration on ATO, Col. Andriy Lysenko, told a briefing on 5 August.
He said Ukrainian servicemen were wounded during the shelling of their positions by militants. On August 4, the positions of ATO forces were shelled twice in the Lugansk sector, 21 time in the Donetsk, and 18 times in the Mariupol sector.
Also, Ukrainian troops repelled an asault of an enemy saboteur group. After the clash that lasted for about an hour, the terrorists retreated.
Last day, militants 42 times opened fire on the forces of ATO in Donbas.