REUTERS

"In the Donetsk sector, at about 19:00 Kyiv time, the Russian-backed mercenaries started firing on the Ukrainian fortified positions near the village of Pavlopil. Five 120mm mines were launched toward the Ukrainian positions from the temporarily occupied village of Sosnivske. In the Luhansk sector, the enemy attacked our fortified positions near the village of Stanytsia Luhanska," the report says.

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"In general, the Russian-terrorist forces violated the ceasefire twice in the past 24 hours. In both cases, the Ukrainian military did not return fire. None of our defenders were killed or wounded in action," the ATO HQ said.

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