11:18 06.07.2018

Ukraine reports 1 WIA amid 26 enemy attacks in Donbas in past day

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Ukraine reports 1 WIA amid 26 enemy attacks in Donbas in past day

 Russia's hybrid military forces have mounted 26 attacks on Ukrainian army positions in Donbas in the past 24 hours, with one Ukrainian soldier reported as wounded in action (WIA), the press service of the Joint Forces Operation (JFO) has reported.

"Over the past day, on July 05, the situation in the JFO area remained controlled. The Russian occupation forces continued violating the established truce along the contact line. The enemy was firing using mainly grenade launchers, heavy machine guns and small arms, and BMP weapons in some areas. The weapons prohibited by the Minsk agreements were not used," the press center of Ukraine's Joint Forces Operation (JFO) said in an update on Facebook as of July 6, 2018.

In the Luhansk sector, the enemy used grenade launchers, heavy machine guns and small arms near the village of Krymske. The Russian-backed mercenaries once again staged a provocation near the disengagement area in the village of Stanytsia Luhanska, having opened fire from small arms.

At the Svitlodarska Duha bulge, the enemy opened fire from automatic grenade launchers and heavy machine guns near the town of Svitlodarsk and the village of Novoluhanske, as a result of which one Ukrainian soldier was wounded.

In the areas near Horlivka and Donetsk – both are occupied by Russian-led troops – in Donetsk region, the enemy was not so active, but it continued using grenade launchers, heavy machine guns and small arms. The Ukrainian positions near the village of Pivdenne and the town of Avdiyivka came under shelling.

"The situation was tense in the Mariupol sector with a large number of enemy provocations. The Russian-led mercenaries opened fire from grenade launchers and small arms near the villages of Shyrokyne, Talakivka and Vodiane, trying to force the Ukrainian troops to fire back in violation of the Minsk agreement," the report reads.

Ukrainian intelligence reported one enemy troop had been killed.

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