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Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov has claimed that Ukrainian government forces destroyed a tank belonging to militants of the self-proclaimed "Donetsk People's Republic" (DPR) on the outskirts of Sloviansk.

“Fighting is underway on the outskirts of Sloviansk. A tank that crashed into checkpoint No. 1 of our units near Sloviansk as part of the ‘peace process on the part of DPR’ has already turned into scrap metal. It was destroyed by Captain Sidorin from a special operations brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine. I will nominate him for an award,” Avakov said on his Facebook account last night.