12:15 08.06.2018

JFO HQ reports 4 WIA amid 37 enemy attacks in Donbas in past 24 hours

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JFO HQ reports 4 WIA amid 37 enemy attacks in Donbas in past 24 hours

Russia's hybrid military forces have mounted 37 attacks on Ukrainian army positions in Donbas in the past 24 hours, with four Ukrainian soldiers reported as wounded in action (WIA), the press service of the Joint Forces Operation has reported.

"Russian-occupation troops during the past day used mortars of 120 and 82 mm calibers 10 times and 122-mm artillery two times that is prohibited by Minsk agreements. A total of 37 violations of the cease-fire regime on the part of the enemy was recorded," the press center of Ukraine's Joint Forces Operation (JFO) said in an update on Facebook as of 07:00 Kyiv time on June 8, 2018.

In the Luhansk sector, hostilities were most active near the villages of Krymske and Novotoshkivske, where the enemy used mortars and tank shells four times during the day. In the Horlivka sector, fighting continued near the village of Zaitseve.

In the Donetsk sector the situation was tense near the village of Kamianka. The situation also escalated in the Mariupol sector, namely near the villages of Vodiane and Lebedynske, where the invaders launched at least 85 mines and shells in the last day.

According to intelligence reports, the enemy also suffered losses: one invader was killed and two others were wounded. The situation in the area of the Joint Forces Operation is controlled.

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