Ministry of Defense of Ukraine

Russian-led forces mounted 24 attacks on Ukrainian troops in Donbas in the past 24 hours.

"No casualties among the Ukrainian troops have been reported over the past day. According to intelligence reports, one occupier was killed and another two were wounded," the press center of Ukraine's Joint Forces Operation said in an update on Facebook as of 07:00 Kyiv time on September 5, 2018.

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Russian occupation forces opened aimed fire from grenade launchers, heavy machine guns and small arms to attack the defenders of the towns of Schastia, Krasnohorivka and Maryinka, and the villages of Triokhizbenka, Krymske, Mayorsk, Novhorodske, Pisky, Bohdanivka, Hnutove, Lebedynske, Vodiane, and Shyrokyne. In one of the sectors, the enemy employed anti-tank missile systems.

"Since Wednesday midnight, Russian-led forces have already attacked the Ukrainian positions outside Vodiane, using heavy machine guns and small arms. There have been no casualties among the Ukrainian troops," the report says.