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Military clashes between the Ukrainian military and the enemy sabotage groups occurred in the Mariupol direction resulting in 30 pro-Russian militants being killed, according to the presidential administration’s speaker for the Anti-Terrorist Operation, Andriy Lysenko, who spoke at a briefing Saturday.
According to Lysenko, the enemy mortared the Ukrainian troops several times in various parts of the front in the Mariupol direction - Starohnativka, Chermalyk and Shyrokine (more than 80 mines were launched).
"In this area at night, there has been a combat encounter between the ATO forces and the enemy sabotage and reconnaissance group. As a result of the concerted action of the Ukrainian troops from different types of forces, the enemy suffered heavy losses in this battle – up to 30 KIAs. Unfortunately, during combat clashes with the occupation forces, two servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were killed," said Lysenko.
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In general there have been seven episodes of ceasefire violations by the Russian-backed militants in the past day.