11:48 17.08.2017

One Ukrainian military killed due to shelling in ATO zone, four injured

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One Ukrainian military killed due to shelling in ATO zone, four injured

The situation in the ATO zone continues taking a turn for the worse: militants are increasingly using heavy weapons, as a result of which one Ukrainian soldier has been killed, four injured over the past day, the press center of the ATO headquarters has reported.

"One Ukrainian serviceman has been killed and another four have been wounded in shelling attacks mounted by militant forces, which have violated the truce 35 times in the past 24 hours," it said.

Attacks involving mortars, grenade launchers and infantry fighting vehicles were recorded near the Avdiyivka industrial zone. From 18:00 Kyiv time, the occupiers shelled the Ukrainian defenders five times, using mortars and various types of grenade launchers. As a result of these confrontations, one Ukrainian defender was killed, another one was injured.

The militants opened fire from mortars, grenade launchers and infantry fighting vehicles on the Ukrainian fortified positions near the village of Starohnativka in the Mariupol sector. In addition, the enemy used a tank and launched at least 16 artillery shells of a 152mm caliber. As a result of these attacks, one Ukrainian soldier was wounded.

The militants breached the truce in the Donetsk sector as International Committee of the Red Cross representatives were working there. A fire broke out in Zaitseve after civilians' houses in the village came under fire. Ukrainian servicemen who arrived to help local residents were also shelled.

In the Luhansk sector, the Ukrainian fortified positions in the villages of Novo-Oleksandrivka and Novozvanivka came under grenade launcher fire at the end of the day.

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