Situation in east less tense in past 3 days

Since Thursday night, two Ukrainian army soldiers and three national guardsmen have been wounded, the Counterterrorism Operation headquarters reported on Friday. According to Col. Andriy Lysenko, presidential spokesman for the Counterterrorism Operation, the militants mostly open artillery and mortar fire at nighttime and from a long distance. “That’s the tactics they use after they learned a hard lesson: every time they opened fire on government troops, they got a smashing response, and their every attack was beaten back, so now they don’t take risks,” Lysenko told reporters on Friday.