Ministry of Defense of Ukraine

Russian-led forces mounted 20 attacks on Ukrainian troops in Donbas in the past 24 hours, according to the Joint Forces Headquarters.

"No casualties among the Ukrainian troops have been reported over the past day. According to intelligence reports, one occupier was killed while stepping on an explosive device, and two others were wounded," the JFO press center wrote in an update on Facebook as of 07:00 Kyiv time on July 11, 2018.

Low-intensity enemy attacks were reported in Luhansk, Popasna and Svitlodarsk sectors. Russian-backed mercenaries shelled the Ukrainian positions near the villages of Krymske, Orikhove and Novoluhanske three times.

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In the Donetsk sector, the enemy fired grenade launchers, heavy machine guns, and small arms at the defenders of the town of Avdiyivka and the village of Opytne.

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The situation was most tense in the Mariupol sector, where the enemy employed grenade launchers, heavy machine guns, and small arms against the Ukrainian military 14 times, provoking government troops to return fire.

The Ukrainian positions near the villages of Vodiane, Lebedynske, Shyrokyne, Hnutove, Pavlopil and Bohdanivka also came under enemy fire.

Since day-start, Russian occupation forces violated the ceasefire five times, mostly using heavy machine guns and grenade launchers.