KIEV, July 30. /ITAR-TASS/. Ukrainian aircraft have made on Wednesday surgical strikes on militia positions on the outskirts of Makeyevka, Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, a spokesperson for the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council’s information and analytical centre told a news briefing.

“Military hardware and strongholds of militia fighters have been destroyed,” Andrei Lysenko said, adding that there had been reports about the destruction of a Grad multiple rocket launcher system.

A militia's checkpoint has been destroyed near the town of Makeyevka, he says. “Information about enemy losses in hardware and personnel is being specified,” he added.

Meanwhile, the press service of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic reported on Wednesday that the Ukrainian army “keeps using phosphorous bombs against civilians”.

“A phosphorous bomb was dropped on the town of Makeyevka near the Krasnaya Zvezda coalmine,” the press service said. “Local residents report about Ukrainian planes flying on a daily basis over the settlement of Zaroshchenskoye, Shakhtyorsk district, dropping bombs,” it said. A tube plant is burning in the town of Khartsyzsk (Donetsk region) after an air strike by Ukrainian law enforcers, according to the press service.