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"Illegal armed groups continued to provoke Ukrainian servicemen, and opened fire on Ukrainian positions eight times using mainly heavy weapons - mortars and artillery, including Grad multiple rocket launchers,” a report posted by the press center on Facebook reads.

In particular, using mortars and artillery systems, militants three times opened fire at ATO forces near the village of Vodiane. Donetsk airport and a town near Pisky were also hit by mortar attacks. Ukrainian positions at the Ostraya Mogyla burial mound were fired on with small arms.

"Yesterday, at about 1900 bandit armed formations opened fire two times with Grad BM-21 multiple rocket launchers on Ukrainian positions near the settlements of Tonenke and Kamenka,” the press center wrote.

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 The attacks by militants in the Donbas subsided after 0235, it said.