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One civilian has been killed, another has been wounded in an attack by the Russian occupation forces on a passenger bus near the Olenivka checkpoint in Donbas, eastern Ukraine, according to the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) Headquarters.
"According to recent reports, the bus with civilians was attacked by militants from illegal armed formations of the self-proclaimed 'Donetsk People's Republic.' The local residents crossing the contact line through the checkpoint at the moment [of the incident] claimed one civilian had been killed, another one had been wounded," the ATO HQ said in an update on Sunday, January 21.
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"Such cynical actions by the Russian mercenaries are aimed at discrediting the Ukrainian army pending OSCE Special Monitoring Mission's Principal Deputy Chief Monitor Alexander Hug's visit to Donetsk and Luhansk regions," the press center said.
The State Border Service of Ukraine earlier reported about two civilians wounded near the village of Olenivka in the so-called "grey zone" in Donbas.