Russia's hybrid military forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in Donbas 17 times in the past 24 hours, with one Ukrainian soldier reported as killed in action (KIA) and another three as wounded in action (WIA), according to the press center of the Ukrainian Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) Headquarters.
"In the Luhansk sector, the enemy fired 120mm mortars, heavy machine guns and small arms near the village of Troyitske in the daytime. In the evening, the militants used grenade launchers of various types, against the Ukrainian fortified positions near the villages of Krymske, Lobacheve, Valuiske and Novo-Oleksandrivka, as well as small arms near the villages of Luhanske, Zaitseve and Stanytsia Luhanska," the report says.
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In addition, flights of enemy UAVs banned by the Minsk agreements were spotted near the towns of Schastia and Maryinka.