Russia's hybrid military forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in Donbas 19 times in the past 24 hours, with two Ukrainian soldiers reported as wounded in action (WIA), according to the press service of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) Headquarters.
The Mariupol sector became the epicenter of confrontation in the last few days. The enemy increasingly uses banned weapons there.
"Yesterday afternoon, the militants were firing 122mm artillery systems, 82mm mortars and machine guns on our positions near the village of Shyrokyne for several hours. The Ukrainian soldiers fire back, using infantry weapons. One Ukrainian soldier was wounded in that fighting. In addition, the Ukrainian fortified positions near the village of Vodiane came under mortar fire in the evening. Furthermore, the occupiers used grenade launchers twice against the defenders of the town of Maryinka," the ATO HQ said.
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In the Luhansk sector, the enemy was opening fire from infantry fighting vehicles, grenade launchers and machine guns on the Ukrainian troops near the village of Triokhizbenka for almost an hour.