In the past 24 hours, Ukrainian militants violated the ceasefire thirteen times, spokesman for the DPR PMD Colonel Eduard Basurin reported at the briefing in Donetsk on April 24.

From the Gorlovka front, militants of the 59th and 58th brigades attacked Zaytsevo, the villages of Gagarin Mine and Izotov Mine with various rocket launchers, large-caliber machine guns and small arms. This morning, militants of the 59th separate motorized infantry brigade shelled Zaytsevo (south) with 120mm mortars, having fired eight shells on peaceful neighborhoods, a residential building at 25 Rudneva Street caught fire.

From the Donetsk front, the 54th and 28th brigades armed with 82mm mortars, anti-aircraft guns, large-caliber machine guns and small arms engaged Spartak, Zhabichevo, the airport environs and the village of Trudovskaya Mine in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, an apartment building at 7 Vagnera Street is damaged.