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Russia's hybrid military forces mounted 36 attacks on Ukrainian army positions in Donbas in the past 24 hours, with one Ukrainian soldier reported as wounded in action (WIA).

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"According to intelligence reports, two occupiers were killed and another six were wounded," the press center of Ukraine's Joint Forces Operation said in an update on Facebook as of 07:00 Kyiv time on August 1, 2018.

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The Russian occupation forces opened aimed fire, using mainly grenade launchers, heavy machine guns and small arms to attack the defenders of the towns of Svitlodarsk, Krasnohorivka, Avdiyivka and Maryinka, and the villages of Krymske, Luhanske, Pivdenne, Zaitseve, Novomykhailivka, Opytne, Pisky, Lebedynske, Pavlopil, Hnutove, Vodiane, and Talakivka.

Since Wednesday midnight, Russian-led forces have mounted two attacks on the Ukrainian positions near Krymske and Maryinka.