13:26 27.05.2016

ATO HQ update: 14 Ukrainian troops wounded in Donbas, no fatalities in last day

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ATO HQ update: 14 Ukrainian troops wounded in Donbas, no fatalities in last day

No Ukrainian soldiers were killed, but 14 were wounded in hostilities in the east of Ukraine in the past day, presidential administration's spokesman for Anti-Terrorist Operation issues Andriy Lysenko said.

"In the past day, no Ukrainian soldiers were killed, but 14 were wounded in hostilities. This happened during enemy shooting in the Donetsk sector and when our BTR 80 vehicle exploded after it had hit an anti-tank mine in the village of Starohnativka," he said at a briefing in Kyiv on Friday.

The enemy violated the ceasefire only once in the Luhansk sector – it was in the village of Stanytsia Luhanska.

The situation in the Donetsk sector remains tense. Escalation was seen in the village of Zaitseve and the town of Avdiyivka, as well as around two positions in the perimeter of the ruined Donetsk airport – the village of Opytne and Butivka coal mine.

In total, there were 15 enemy attacks in the Donetsk sector in the past day, 12 of them were with the use of mortars.

The situation in the Mariupol sector was less tense – there were 14 attacks there, including six mortar barrages. The enemy violates the truce on the entire frontline, but the largest number of attacks was recorded in the towns of Krasnohorivka and Dokuchayevsk, and the village of Shyrokyne, which is about 24 km from the Ukrainian-controlled strategic port city of Mariupol at the coast of the Sea of Azov.

Lysenko also reported that an OSCE drone was shot down by militants on the southwest outskirts of the militant-controlled town of Horlivka on Friday morning.

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