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Militant groups continue to carry out armed provocations and use weapons, which should have been withdrawn from the line of disengagement of the parties in Donbas, which resulted in the death of a serviceman of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on Monday, the press center of the anti-terrorist operation (ATO) headquarters reported.

“On the whole, since the beginning of the day, the aggressor has committed six targeted fire attacks at our positions, as a result of which one of the enemy’s mortar shells, unfortunately, killed one soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,” the headquarters said in the bulletin as of 18.00 on Monday, published on its Facebook page.