The enemy continued fire influence on the ATO forces units. It was recorded that the adversary shelled 42 times (during twenty-four hours – 29) from small arms, grenade launchers, and 120-mm and 82-mm mortars, more than a half of which in Donetsk direction. The attacks were, as follows: 3 attacks – Stanytsia Luhanska, Shchastia (Novoaidar direction); 1 attack – Novotoshkivske (Sieverodonetsk direction); 4 attack – Novozvanivka, Zaitseve (Sloviansk direction); 26 attacks – Avdiivka, Krasnohorivka, Mariinks, Novomykhailivka (Donetsk direction); 5 attacks – Taramchuk, Novotroitske (Volnovakha direction); 3 attacks – Vodiane, Shyrokyne (Mariupol direction).
It was confirmed the location of TOE units of the Russian Armed Forces in the following areas:
Donetsk – a unit of the 24th separate Special Forces brigade (Novosybirsk) of the Central Military District of the Russian Armed Forces;
Novoazovsk – to company of the 45th separate Special Forces brigade (Kubinka) of the Airborne Forces of the Russian Armed Forces;
Smile, Kirovsk, Pervomaisk – mobile complexes of radio monitoring “Svet-KU” (its designed for searching, detection, evaluation, direction finding location of the radio-frequency sources and information security from leakage through the communication channel).
It was observed other losses of the servicemen of the 1st AC of the Russian Armed Forces (Donetsk) who acted as a part of the SRGs:
on April 25, 2016, one serviceman was killed and two servicemen were wounded of the 9th separate assault motorized rifle Marine Corps regiment (Novoazovsk) and the 3rd separate Special Forces battalion (Donetsk).
It was established the supplies of POL and weapons and military equipment from Russian territory to the following settlements:
Rovenki – five cisterns (200 tons) with POL;
Luhansk – railway echelon (48 platforms) with 70 fighting vehicles (IFVs, APCs, BRDM (combat reconnaissance patrol vehicle), MT-LB).
The Ukrainian side informed the representatives of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine about the presence of tanks, artillery systems and 122-mm MLRS “Hrad” in the areas of Pervomaisk, Dokuchaievsk and Yasne.