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Militants have conducted 17 attacks on Ukrainian army positions in Donbas over the past day, the anti-terrorist operation press center wrote on Facebook on Jan. 20.

Tensions flared at night near the Donetsk airport, and militants opened gunfire near Pisky, the press center said.

Militants fired a mortar and a grenade launcher on Ukrainian army positions near Vodyane in the Mariupol area, the report said.