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"Over the last day, we haven’t lost any Ukrainian soldiers, but ten were injured as a result of military clashes," he said.

According to Lysenko, one Ukrainian border guard is missing as a result of an incident that took place on Sunday, when a Ukrainian coastguard boat was blown up in the Azov Sea off Mariupol by an improvised explosive device made by Russian-backed militants.

According to the State Border Service, seven soldiers were on board the boat. Six of them were hospitalized. Later, one of them died.

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According to police of Mariupol, the man killed wasn’t a soldier. He was a 45-year-old local resident. The police are still searching for a seventh person who was on board the boat.