What did the Donbas front look like in May 2018?

What was the daily reality of the war in Donbas as of 24 May 2018? The most recent military reporting among the day's available facts, dated 19 May 2018, gives a sense of its steady tempo.

Ukraine's Joint Forces Operation said Russian-led militants had mounted 43 attacks on Ukrainian troops in the preceding 24 hours. On 10 occasions, it said, they used artillery systems and 120mm and 82mm mortars. Ukrainian servicemen suffered no casualties in that period.

According to intelligence data cited in the same report, two militants were killed and three others wounded.

What the figures show

The report describes a front on which dozens of attacks in a single day were routine, and heavy weapons such as mortars and artillery featured among them. The operation's account of a day without Ukrainian casualties sits alongside militant losses reported by intelligence.

The figures are a snapshot of one 24-hour period rather than a trend, and they come from the Ukrainian side's own reporting. Even so, they show the scale of daily fighting in the days before 24 May 2018.