In the morning the Ukrainian military morning shelled with mortars the locality of Sahanka in the Novoazovsky region, in the south of the DPR. It was reported by a source in the DPR security agencies.

‘At 9:15 am, the AFU opened fire from 82-mm mortars at the locality of Sahanka in the south of the Republic,’ he said.

According to the source, the enemy opened fire from the positions near the locality of Vodyanoye. No less than five mortar shells were launched on Sakhanka.

On August 26, the members of the Contact Group in Minsk agreed a permanent ceasefire regime on the contact line in Donbass, starting at 0:00 on August 31. However, in the evening of September 1, it became known that a civilian had been wounded by a Ukrainian sniper on the western outskirts of Donetsk.