Over the past day, Ukrainian militants engaged populated localities of the Republic eight times, the DPR PMD’s spokesman Dmitry Astrakhan reported at a briefing in Donetsk on December 25.
- On the Gorlovka front, militants from the 59th brigade using 82mm mortars, heavy machine guns and small arms engaged Dolomitnoye and the village of Mine 6/7.
- On the Donetsk front, the 56th, 28th and 128th brigades engaged Dokuchayevsk, the village of Trudovskaya Mine of Petrovsky district of Donetsk and the airport environs by using antiaircraft systems, antitank grenade launchers, heavy machine guns and small arms.
- On the Mariupol front, the 10th brigade engaged Sakhanka with small arms.
Information on the scale of destruction of the civil infrastructure and casualties among the civilian population is being specified.