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"In the last day, we lost two Ukrainian soldiers as a result of military clashes. It happened near the town of Avdiyivka after the enemy was firing 120mm mortars on our position," Motuzianyk said.

As UNIAN reported earlier, the combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine 52 times in the past 24 hours, including 37 times in the Donetsk sector, 10 times in the Mariupol sector and five times in the Luhansk sector.