Fierce fighting followed Donetsk airport.

About this at the briefing said the speaker of the UNIC national security and defense Council Andriy Lysenko, passes the Censor.NET

"Here for the third day in a row militants carried out unsuccessful attempts to assault this strategic object. According to operative data, in the assault on the airport direct part of the Russian special forces, but this does not help the enemy. The enemy, inflicting heavy losses, the airport remains under the control of our military," said Lysenko.

In addition, he noted that under the Donetsk from artillery and mortars were repeatedly fired position forces ATO under N. p. Experienced, Sands, Georgievka, Maksimilianovich, Avdeevka.

"In Avdiivka and Experienced our artillery worked ahead of the curve and the enemy was forced to retreat. From rocket launchers "Grad" and mortars twice attacked our bases in C. Thin," added Lysenko.

Source: http://censor.net.ua/