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No Ukrainian military serviceman has been killed in the anti-terrorist operation (ATO) zone in the past 24 hours, yet two servicemen have been injured, Ukrainian Presidential Administration spokesman Andriy Lysenko has said.

“None of the Ukrainian servicemen were killed in the hostilities over the past day, but two were injured. They were wounded in the explosion of a mine near Zaitseve,” he said at a press briefing in Kyiv on Saturday.

He also said that illegal armed formations with 82-mm mortars and grenade launchers prohibited under Minsk agreements shelled Novozvanivka near Popasna.

Machine guns and grenade launchers were used by militants near Donetsk airport and the suburbs of Horlivka. A militants’ sniper was also operating in Opytne.Militants shelled Ukrainian armed forces with 82-mm cand 120-mm mortars near Zaitseve, with APCs near Novhorodske. In addition, APCs and grenade launchers were used by militants near Luhanske.

Militants’ snipers worked in Maryinka and Krasnohorivka, machine guns were used in Shyrokyne and Starohnativka.Lysenko said that a hostile drone was seen flying near Berezove.