"According to observers of the LPR office in the JCCC (Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire Regime), an increase in the number of attacks from the Ukrainian Armed Forces has been recorded over the past day," the press service quotes Interfax as saying.

The increase in the number of attacks from the Ukrainian side in the LPR is associated with the meeting of the trilateral contact group on the settlement of the conflict in Donbass scheduled for April 14.

It is noted that, as previously stated in the LPR, the areas of the settlements Zolotoe-5, Lozovoe, Molodezhnoe, Pervomaisk, Zhelobok, Kalinovo were subjected to shelling.

Earlier, Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited the positions of Ukrainian troops in Donbass.