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The press center for the headquarters of the Ukrainian army operation in Donbas has accused militants' forces of shelling the town of Horlivka, which is not controlled by the Ukrainian authorities, from positions in the village of Spartak on the outskirts of Donetsk.

Militants’ forces are currently “firing multiple-launch rocket systems from Spartak in the direction of Horlivka,” the press center said on its Facebook account on Nov. 25 evening.

“Twenty projectiles have already been launched,” it said.

The press center described these actions by the militants as an attempt to discredit Ukraine’s Armed Forces, noting that Spartak is also a militants-controlled locality.