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A team of DTEK electricians from Donetskoblenergo, a regional power company, who were conducting repairs near the village of Semenivka close to Avdiyivka, came under a sudden Grad rocket attack which killed one of the workers as a result.

“Today a four-member brigade from the Avdiivka district power station was repairing a high-voltage power line damaged by hostilities in the village of Semenivka, Yasynuvata District. Suddenly, a Grad rocket attack was launched. The entire brigade took shelter in a trench. But an exploded shell fatally injured the circuit specialist Volodymyr Kruhlov. The rest of the brigade have not been injured,” DTEK sad in a statement on Sept. 30.