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A Ukrainian serviceman has been killed near Pavlopil, Donetsk region, when a military vehicle hit an unknown explosive device, the Ukrainian military headquarters reported.

“According to preliminary information, a serviceman of a unit whose personnel are performing combat tasks in the seaside sector near the town of Pavlopil, died as a result of a military vehicle being blown up by an unknown explosive device,” the press center of the Ukrainian military headquarters said on his Facebook page on April 28.

Earlier this day, spokesman of the Defense Ministry of Ukraine on the combat zone issues Andriy Lysenko said three Ukrainian servicemen were injured in the combat zone in Donbas on April 27.