11:50 30.10.2017

Ukraine reports 1 wounded serviceman amid 15 enemy attacks in past day

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Ukraine reports 1 wounded serviceman amid 15 enemy attacks in past day

Russia's hybrid military forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in Donbas 15 times in the past 24 hours, with one Ukrainian soldier reported as wounded in action. The ATO forces fired back 10 times, thus suppressing enemy activity, the press service of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) headquarters has reported.

"At the end of the past days, the situation in the combat area did not significantly change, and the enemy continued to concentrate fire activity in the Donetsk sector, using predominantly infantry weapons," the ATO's report says on Facebook posted on Monday morning.

In the Donetsk sector, the Ukrainian fortified positions near the Avdiyivka industrial zone were attacked with an automatic grenade launcher and small arms. One Ukrainian fighter was wounded as a result of the shelling. Now he is in a military hospital, his state of health is satisfactory.

The militants also used anti-tank grenade launchers and machine guns against the Ukrainian positions near the village of Luhanske and the town of Svitlodarsk, as well as infantry fighting vehicles near the village of Zaitseve.

In the Mariupol sector, the Ukrainian positions near the town of Maryinka had been attacking from an anti-tank grenade launcher and small arms for more than an hour.

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