Russia's hybrid military forces attacked Ukrainian army positions 15 times on Saturday, November 25, as a result of which two Ukrainian soldiers were killed and four were wounded, according to the press service of the Ukrainian Anti-Terrorist Operation Headquarters.
"Two Ukrainian soldiers were killed in action, two were wounded in action and another two suffered combat trauma," the ATO HQ wrote on Facebook on Sunday, November 26.
The Ukrainian army fired back seven times, it said.
"The defenders of the village of Novoluhanske in the Luhansk sector were attacked with 82mm mortars and grenade launchers, while the latter were used to fire at [Ukrainian positions] near the village of Novo-Oleksandrivka. The enemy fired small arms at the defenders of the villages of Stanytsia Luhanska and Krymske," the ATO HQ said.
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Russian proxies also used the weapons banned by the Minsk agreements.
"To blame the ATO forces for provocation, they also fired both on their own and Ukrainian troops each after each, using heavy weapons. Our troops' reaction was quick and adequate," the ATO HQ wrote.