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The anti-terrorist operation (ATO) forces have killed 247 members of illegal armed groups and destroyed a significant number of military vehicles over the past 24 hours as a result of armed clashes in eastern Ukraine, the ATO press center has reported.

“Over the past 24 hours the enemy’s losses are 247 terrorists, two tanks, eight armored combat vehicles, two BM-21 Grad launchers, four vehicles and an artillery piece,” the ATO press center reported on Facebook early on Aug. 26.

The press center said that security forces were now performing the tasks of searching for saboteurs in the village of Rodakove in Luhansk Oblast.