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Two Ukrainian military service members have been killed in the east of the country on Saturday, Oleksandr Motuzianik, an anti-terrorist operation spokesman for the Ukrainian presidential administration, said on Nov. 1.

“Two Ukrainian Armed Forces officers were killed in a mine explosion in the forest between Avdiyivka and the Donetsk diversion road yesterday,” he said at a briefing in Kyiv.

At the same time, no provocations had been observed on the contact line in the preceding 24 hours, Motuzianik said.